Chow # 265 – Which functional organization should a Product Owner be from?
Commutronix is a highly watched startup, starting to disrupt the electric vehicle technology space. Commutronix does not manufacture vehicles. Rather they almost dominate the EV space by providing core technologies to OEMs and almost all EV manufacturers have incorporated their solutions into their product lines. As the expectations of long range performance and superfast charging […]
Chow #264 – Room for further Improvement
If you want to further improve the throughput of the Rust quicksort implementation, what are the options you may consider? Answer Concurrency may not be an option since the sorting logic is non-blocking. One of the options is parallelism. We can leverage the number of cores of the target system to improve the throughput further.The […]
CHOW #263 – Should we add a buffer to estimates? When?
Pratik is a new member in a Scrum team; he has come from another organization which had adopted Agile much before the current one. As a new member he is having a 1:1 catch up with all the other team members, this is to get familiar with the team, in these WFH times. After one […]
CHOW #262 – To stand-up or not?
Marshall Communications Inc. was a large telecom services provider and has a 35% market share in this business. However, they are threatened by their nearest competitors who have narrowed the gap between them and Marshall during the last few years by going aggressive with Agile transformation of their entire organization. Marshall feels compelled to follow […]
CHOW#268 : Grandma’s TV remote
While attempting this CHOW, you could also take a look at a related blog “Digital Divide – By zero?!”. My grandma is in her 80’s and lives by herself in Chennai. She is quite sharp and also strong-willed; loves Chennai and her circle of friends in Mylapore. I am located in Bangalore and due to […]
CHOW #261: How to bridge cultural differences in a multinational team?
Sid is a newly hired development manager for a global software product company. Sid is originally from India, but he has been living in the US for over five years.Sid is responsible for managing a multi-location team of teams, who are developing one of the flagship products of the company. Sid has teams in the […]
CHOW 260: PO overpowering SM
Murugan joined an organization as a Scrum master. One of the teams that he was asked to coach has been in running mode at a fast pace for 2 months already. The team has been doing basic agile practices such as having a time-boxed work commitment, daily standup, and demo to the Product owner and […]
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 […]
CHOW #258 – Team Working Norms
Sukriti had joined as a new Scrum Master for a team that worked for internal technology group of a Financial Services Organization. She had come from a products-based organization that was known in the industry as people friendly and at the same time was known for the quality of their products. Many media houses had […]
CHOW #257 – Have some empathy
Patrick was asked to join a new project for a healthcare company. He found out that the project is in a platform that he has good familiarity and also understands the domain very well. He was also preparing a paper as a part of his online certification course in financial management. Towards that, it would […]
