Re-boot your Sprint Planning
This blog is more to share an observation and get inputs from as many folks as possible on sprint planning: Often, teams do their sprint planning in the following way: 1. There are a set of stories (mostly) ready for an upcoming sprint.2. Hence, the teams estimate their stories to pick a few stories from […]
The Role of Functional Managers in an Agile/Scrum environment
Agile transformation success stories are not as common as you would expect considering the promise Agile approaches hold. Yet, in my experience in working with many organizations, I have been amazed by how much more they could have achieved if only the various roles involved in the transformation were understood and implemented the way they […]
CHOW #94- The Next Level of Agility
Venkat is the Scrum Master of ScrumGods, a team which has consistently been praised by all as a very Agile team. They did all their ceremonies without fail and team members collaborate well and their artefacts are all highly visible and so on. After a few months, some of the team members were getting a […]
Improving Agility – Raising the bar
In every organization where I have coached several teams for periods of six months or more, I have found a few teams which stand out. It could be due to a dynamic Scrum Master or a sensible and knowledgeable Product Owner or a few motivated smart team members. These are the teams which keep approaching […]
CHOW #93- Building Hypotheses
The following are the Roles/Goals, Pains, and Gains for a secondary school Principal in India. Roles / Goals Pains Gains Your challenge is to come up with 3 or 4 hypotheses that would validate our product’s feature set. Suggested Solution:
Product Visioning: 2.3 Building Hypotheses
Previous Articles in Product Visioning series: Product Visioning: https://pm-powerconsulting.com/blog/product-visioning-5-steps-scoping-software-projects/ Product Visioning: 1. Elevator Pitch: https://pm-powerconsulting.com/blog/product-visioning-elevator-pitch/ Product Visioning: 2.1 User Persona: https://pm-powerconsulting.com/blog/product-visioning-2-1-user-persona/ Product Visioning: 2.2 User Goals, Pains, and Gains: https://pm-powerconsulting.com/blog/product-visioning-identifying-right-target-persona/ Product Visioning: 2.3 Building Hypotheses using Persona and their Goals, Pains, and Gains. Strategyzer provides an effective template called Value Proposition Canvas. In our previous articles, we have built […]
Handling Risk in the Digital Era
All of us work on projects of different types, size and shape. So, when someone says there’s a risk that we cannot complete this story in the current sprint – we look for alternatives. Can we break that story into two smaller slices? We then include the slice that is more important and we can […]
CHOW #90- Critical conversation
Nipun Sehgal was the designated QnC (IT Service Provider) Program Manager for the engagement with Spot-On Power Solutions (SOPS) to develop their next generation Analytics solution. A key assumption in the QnC proposal was the re-use of artefacts from the earlier project undertaken by SOPS which had not succeeded. After QnC won the project bid, […]
Thoughts that plague a manager’s mind
As a consultant, I come across many project and program managers in the IT world. I always wondered why most of their faces looked to be in pain. I was then enlightened by a long-time family friend who happens to be a homemaker. She mockingly said, “Hadn’t you seen your own face in the mirror […]
