CHOW #259 – Accommodating the change
Prakash works as a Product Owner in a software services company which specializes in custom software development for its customer. Prakash has MBA degree in Finance and has good understanding of banking and insurance domains. In his current assignment his customer is an insurance company for whom his team delivers software every two weeks. They […]
Journey of a coach – theory & practice (Part II)
In an earlier article “Journey of a coach – theory & practice (Part I), we introduced the “circles of influence” which form the context (see diagram below) for coaching process. The circles in the diagram above have a significant bearing on coaching effectiveness and need to be addressed by the coach using the theory of […]
Journey of a coach – theory & practice (Part I)
This article is part of the series on “Journey of a coach” covering my experiences as a performance coach. You may have the read an earlier article in the series on “Journey of a coach – the beginning”. The journey continues here… Yogi Berra, New York Yankees baseball player (arguably the best catcher of all […]
Working long hours…
Years back, I was working on a project and putting long hours, my boss noticed this and asked me to meet him first thing the next morning. Next morning when I met him, he said “if the work requires long hours, see that you work late only alternate days say Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays. If you […]
Journey of a coach – the beginning
The motivation for this series of articles is to share my personal journey as a “performance” coach for software project managers since 2006. These days, one sees a number of professionals in their late career starting out as coaches – former CEOs, senior HR professionals, operations executives and so on. I hope that this series […]
Program Management Tip 7 – Change management
“The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn’t change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.” – Kent Beck (2000), Extreme programming explained: embrace change. p. 28. If there are changes to the scope at the program level, […]
7 Tips for Effective Program Management (A practitioner’s approach)
Picture source: michellerobinson.co.uk A Program is a set of actions aimed at supporting the achievement of a strategic business objective. A program may comprise many sub-programs and / or projects. Managing programs requires a highly specialised set of skills (which may be different for different types of programs, both technical and managerial. Managing programs is a […]
