Challenge of the Week (CHOW #191) – Jest Kidding!
Refer to the blog WFH – Child’s Play for the context of this CHOW. The Child has been overhearing her WFH Dad’s calls for quite a while now. Since Dad always had his ear phones on, the Child could hear only one side of the conversations. Despite that, the Child has figured that there were […]
CHOW #190 – The foolish king
Here is a fable. The challenge is to figure out what Agile value or principle (the words ‘value’ and ‘principle’ is used in its general sense) is taught in this fable. There was once a king of a small kingdom. The kingdom had lived in peace for a long time. The king had made peace […]
Chow #189 – Getting over the lockdown fatigue
The last 3 weeks now felt like an extended honeymoon. Janardhan was happy, his team was also happy. Everyone enjoyed the freedom of working from home – in their pajamas and still be fully engaged in the work. Team productivity was higher than when they were together in the office. The relief from traffic jams […]
Chow #181 – Approach for Reorganisation of Collaborative teams?
Kumar is an agile coach with tremendous coaching experience. He had joined an MNC recently as an agile coach and coaching multiple teams. But the organization went through a transformation and now he is part of a central team of coaches. He was excited as he could part of like-minded people. But now all of […]
CHOW #159 – A new Scrum Master faces challenge
Raghav after a series of interviews finally got the job as a Scrum Master in his new company. He had a history of having worked on several agile transformations in various corners of the globe. He was told during the interview he would have an opportunity to guide a team that’s not exposed to agile […]
Chow #149 – Un-impactful retrospectives and long list of action items
Sagar is a Scrum Master (SM) of Pacifica Scrum Team since Sprint 19 and they are currently into Sprint 26. Sagar shares that their retrospectives are not impactful. They do get good inputs and discuss, but they end the meeting with an overwhelming sense of not being able to address all issues. Not all team […]
Chow #148 – Re-sizing in every sprint
My team wants to resize their stories every sprint. Our release consists of 8 sprints of 2 weeks each. We are in our 5th sprint. Our actual velocity is lower than the release planning velocity. Are we doing it right? If your answer is either ‘yes’ or ‘no’, please explain why? Suggested solution: Relative sizing […]
Chow # 137: Is spending slack time on self development good?
Saugandhika came to me with one of those tricky questions. Shiv, she asked – what should I tell my team member, who, for this discussion, shall remain unnamed, was spotted binge watching tech videos, pretty much all day, yesterday. My first reaction was, Wow! Isn’t that cool. The guy has spent time in self development […]
CHOW #135: Weigh in on some weighty Agile questions!
In PM Power’s Enterprise Agile Transformation practice, customers – either starting on Agile adoption or reviewing their current state – often ask us questions like the ones below. What would be your answers for them? You can answer as many as you like – at least one if not all 3! Ask shiv@pm-powerconsulting.com for what […]
CHOW #128: Back to the Drawing Board
Peter is a project manager, who has delivered many software projects in Airlines ticketing and reservations successfully, on-time and within budget. He just signed up to deliver an analytics platform for revenue enhancement, which involved storing and analyzing humongous historic data, towards proposing optimal pricing plans for the airlines. His team consisted of a researcher […]
