Chow #256 – Leveraging WebAssembly
The Challenge: Your team is excited about the potential benefits of WebAssembly. Your team wants to try it in their application. How, as a team member, do you approach this? Suggested Answer: Prioritized Goal: We need to identify where we should improve rather than doing a random walk. Hence as a team, we start our […]
Chow #255 – Would you choose this project?
CHOW #254 – How to Determine the Number of Teams Required for a Development Work?
Scenario This question came from one of the organizations I was helping in Agile Coaching in Telecom Industry. A member from the senior leadership team asked how he can determine the number of teams and team members required for a development work? I asked him how he would otherwise do it in a conventional development […]
CHOW #252 – Release Planning to Continuous Planning
After a leadership awareness session on Continuous Planning & Continuous Delivery, Ram walks up to the coach with a puzzled look. Continuous Planning is expected to help the unit respond faster in a dynamic environment and focus on delivering value. The unit that he leads has been operating with half-yearly releases for the last 5 […]
Challenge of the Week (CHOW) #251: So far, yet so close
While attempting this CHOW, it would be useful for you to take a look at the related blog “Shifting gears in mentoring – an experience”. You are the mentor for Fahid, a bright young lad who is a first-year student of Computer Science and Engineering. Fahid lives with his family in a Telangana town […]
Chow #250 – Parallel tracks in any transformation
Victor seemed to be immersed with some chart on his desk and fully focused on that, when Bardhan walked in. Bardhan saw some parallel arrows drawn on the chart and the axes marked as Value, Maturity on the Y dimension and Cadence of development and releases on the X dimension. Curious, he asked Victor what […]
CHOW #249 – How do you budget for Agile implementation?
The question is, how do you budget for Agile implementation, if at all? Please refer to the model built by PM Power Consulting mapping Stakeholder outcomes to Agile enablers here. Can you use this model to budget for Agile implementation? If so, how? Can you think of an approach to this? Suggested Solution We saw in the […]
CHOW #248 – Sensitivity during these(covid) times
Harshita is a scrum master for a team. With the Covid situation across India, the team has been dull and in a very somber state. As a scrum master, she could understand and relate to the situation that the team has been going through. At an organization level, there has been a lot of Employee […]
CHOW #247 – How do you make ‘visual’ your culture?
Anmol Benjamin is the head of the technical center for a high technology Telecom company. There are more than 1000 engineers working in this center. They work on a variety of projects and products. Anmol has been working as the head for more than 5 years. He is proud of what they have been able […]
CHOW 246 – Getting technical managers to understand how to do good project reviews
Ashish Agarwal, VP of Engineering Services for IOU India Pvt Ltd., the Indian Engineering services arm for IOU Inc. in the US, was doing his Department reviews with his Directors. This is his first monthly review meeting since joining the company about a month ago. Ashish has asked that each department head presents specific data […]
