CHOW #120 – Workacholic Manager
You joined this team couple of months back. You notice that your manager generally works very long hours on week-days and comes to work on certain week-ends too. You are concerned that you would not get good appraisal if you do not work similar hours. Exercise: Suggested Solution: My response is: Yes – it would […]
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, […]
CHOW #89- Letting go…
Vishal was very excited to get to work that morning. He was feeling very relaxed after the Dussera break when he had taken a whole week off. But the main reason for his excitement was the new role he was going to take up when he is back in the office. He had the requisite […]
CHOW #88 – The Case of the PO-ed PO!
Peter Cohn is the Product Owner(PO) for the maintenance and enhancement of a CRM platform in a large product development organization. The CRM platform is an industry leader unifying case management, business process management, robotics and AI-based decision making. Peter is located in New York City (NYC) working with the company’s product management locally and […]
CHOW #82- Lack of Focus
Arjuna was the program manager of a large program with many projects under its umbrella. One ofthe projects seemed to be suffering from a lack of focus on a technical requirement, namelyresponse time. Even though the project team started off being completely aware of the importanceof this requirement, after a couple of months of development, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CHOW #13– Getting the best from and individual contributor in a Scrum team
Judy, the newest member in the team that you are the Scrum Master for, walks up to you to discuss a challenge she has been facing. After her first week of self study of project artefacts, and understanding the coding standards, the source file structures in the repository as well as the commit, build etc […]
