CHOW # 202 – The challenge of too many layers between development and the business users
Indus Mercantile bank is your customer headquartered in Delhi. Garima is their Director of IT based in Delhi. You are the Project Manager responsible for delivering a Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management solution for them. You need to work with a Partner, Global Solutions, to deliver this solution. The Partner will work with customer’s IT […]
CHOW #201 – When your fears come true
When someone shows their neighborhood photo, how do you know the condition inside their house? Gary is the engineering head of a software team, whose financial software platform has been successful with multiple clients over a decade. The team has some great developers, who work together well and support each other immensely, which directly contributes […]
Chow #200 – An adamant Scrum Master
Jack was the Scrum Master of the squad, ‘The Confident’. He had worked as a developer and designer for many years and grown into a Scrum Master. An expert coder that he was he took on the role of Scrum Master with great confidence. He obviously knew everything the squad was working on and thought […]
CHOW #199 – Creating Safe environment for your team
Payel is a Scrum master and has been coaching a team for almost three months. She has been able to implement agile practices and do it well, mostly. In Retrospective meetings, she was able to get people to talk about what went well and what did not go well. But most of the feedback was […]
CHOW #198 – How do you setup your Cloud Reliability Team?
Santa is the scrum master for the DevOps team. She just took over as a scrum master and found the team highly functioning. They are working on many initiatives going as well as keeping up with the plethora of service requests that are coming their way. Santhosh is the Product lead for DevOps and he […]
CHOW #197 – How to kick-start a new remote team project ?
It has been a few months since most teams at C3 Technologies have been working remotely, due to a worldwide pandemic. Most teams have managed to adjust and adapt to the new mode of work. By adopting a mix of tools and technology, teams are able to maintain productivity and flow of work. What has […]
CHOW #196 – Improving Productivity of the support and maintenance teams
Manish has taken up the role of a Scrum Master in a new team which has recently adopted Agile. The team is responsible for support and maintenance of a very important enterprise application and has adopted iteration based delivery model. All the support and maintenance requests are raised through a ticketing tool and come to […]
CHOW # 195 – Dependencies causing delay
The Scrum Team that I was coaching, was one time struggling to finish the items that they have taken up for a sprint. They could not meet the sprint goal. This was discussed in the retrospective, and team brought up dependencies on another Scrum Team which is causing uncertainty and delay. The two Scrum Teams […]
CHOW #194 – Is experimentation doomed?
Arvind a super Scrum Master has been an ardent proponent of test and experiment. He was the Scrum Master for two teams. Govinda the manager of the two teams had his regular catch up with the teams. He said the current covid environment has made the market uncertain. So he has told the team to […]
Chow #192 – Conflicting Methods
You are coaching John, a Product Owner, in prioritization techniques. The team predominantly works on small enhancements alongside a few major functional epics. Small enhancement features are grouped into a couple of Maintenance epics in the tool. Road-map has been prepared by the program team sharing all the epics to be completed in the next […]
