A Goal Focused Team – Part 1
It is worth watching the replay of the 2006 Football World Cup – Argentina vs Serbia & Montenegro, even if you have seen it before. The second goal by Argentina in their 6-0 drubbing of Serbia & Montenegro was really something. They quietly went through more than twenty passes and then Riquelme fed Saviola who […]
CHOW #77- Help Sundar convey the importance of Agile Metrics
Babu appeared irritated. He was the project manager in a large Systems Integrator, who had successfully grown a newrelationship – that started as a 4 person project, to a 50 person team. His approach had been to work closely with his customers, anticipate their needs and propose solutionsproactively. Adopting Agile approaches helped him and his […]
DevOps and the software lifecycle
The most commonly accepted definition of DevOps is that it is a movement. There are many discussions around the approaches that would work best to adopt DevOps in a specific context. Most of these threads talk about the need for culture, automation, lean thinking etc, and those that get into a little more details in terms of […]
CHOW #65– Collaboration across teams – making SoS effective
Sunita looked anxious when she met me a couple of months ago. She has been a successful Scrum Master and enjoyed her work. Her team respected her and held her in high regard. She also had a good working relationship with the Product Management team and the functional managers of team members. Team members were […]
Some inferences from the State of DevOps 2017 report
It is always good to learn from others, particularly if the sources are from across industries – as they trigger ideas to apply in our own work areas. While this is one such learning from the IT industry, The latest State of DevOps report for 2017 offers thoughts that can be applied at team level or organization […]
Immutable infrastructure
Over the many years of my interactions with various projects, the most common misconception that I come across is equating a daily standup to scrum and agile. In such situations, the conversations invariably start something like this: “We are already agile, we do daily standups – so, we do not need any training. Just tell […]
CHOW #29– A Question of ROI
Dinesh was confused. As a project manager, he was not sure how to respond to the question from the finance team on a proposal to buy a new tool for this project. The suggestion for the tool had come from his team. A tool that would reduce the efforts being spent today to manage multiple […]
Enabling self-organization of Agile teams
As an agile coach, I knew how self-organization manifests itself in various ceremonies. There is a brilliant blog by JV – one of my colleagues at PM Power – that elucidates the behavior of self-organizing teams in various ceremonies. I would observe the behavior of the team in many of these ceremonies and guide the […]
Chow #14 – What online tools do you suggest for a distributed team?
Lets take a drive around how teams are operating in a distributed environment. I am sure a lot of us would have been meeting people remotely. This challenge is to take collaboration a step further. Roopa, a seasoned manager has got started on a small but interesting project. Her team is rolling out a health […]
Design Thinking – What it is and how to start using it …
What is behind this sudden prominence of Design Thinking? What problems does Design Thinking solve for businesses? If I understand Design Thinking – can I set it up for my teams to get results? This post tries to provide a ring side view to these questions.
