CHOW #245- Swarming in teams
Ashok is the Scrum Master for the Black Hawks team. The team has completed the 5th Sprint with him as the Scrum Master and also the Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. The team was not able to close a high priority story due to a technical impediment. The team is not happy about this outcome, […]
CHOW#244 – Fixing the problem
Bob is a manager in an IT product company. His team is responsible for the support and maintenance of a product. His team has started on the agile transformation journey six weeks back and is slowly getting used to the new practices. One of their customers asked for some customizations; the first set of which […]
CHOW#243 – Agility in HR
Devina heads the HR department of a large investment bank in India. She had heard about Agile but thought that it was more of a skillset required in the IT department. Her company is in the process of undergoing Enterprise Agile Transformation and was moving in the direction of Agility. As one of the function […]
CHOW #242 Impact of management style while WFH
Hema was the delivery head for a healthcare client with JCN incorporated. Rahim, Radha and Rachel, reported to Hema. Rahim was responsible for Software delivery, Radha for medical transcription and Rachel first-line IT support to the client.The three of them had their own management style, which varied drastically and Hema allowed them to run with […]
CHOW #241 Will tasking reduce knowledge silos?
Do you think tasking would help reduce the creation of knowledge silos? Would it help developers rotate stories/tasks easily? Suggested Solution: Tasking done effectively, would help share the knowledge within the team. I’ve worked with teams that tasked their stories during sprint planning. Even though the sprint planning meeting took 2-3 hours for a 5-6 […]
CHOW#240 Stay in touch with your Customers
Suniti is a product manager in a company that’s been building products and platforms for logistics management in the transportation industry. She moved into this role from a previous one where she was an on-site installation engineer. Her exposure to customer environments and workflows have developed a sense of empathy that enables her to understand […]
CHOW #238 – Do managers unintentionally try to micromanage the team?
Susan is a Scrum Master of a software product development team. The team was formed six months ago and is new to Agile and Scrum. The team is working hard but not able to deliver as per the expectation of the business. Susan feels that the team members have adequate technical skills, but they lack […]
CHOW #237 – Running out of collaboration?
Inzamam-ul-Huq (Inzy) was a great player for Pakistan in the nineties. Beyond his batting classics, he was known for the most bizarre run-outs in the history of cricket. There were players who have had more run-outs than Inzy, and have got more partners run-out than he has. But when you observe the nature of his […]
CHOW #235 – Relentless focus on new functionality
Sam is a strong product owner with clear focus on customer priorities. He interacts with customer and user groups regularly and is committed to adding value to them. He drives the priorities for three different scrum teams and demands high standards from the teams in terms of output and quality. He often finds that teams […]
CHOW #234 – Psycho safety: in two minds?
Phiroze Batliwala is the leader of a team enhancing a software product with advanced features for forecasting consumer behaviour. His team consisted of three senior members and six relatively fresh people. The three seniors generally led discussions on technical directions and the rest were focused on implementation aspects. In a recent meeting, the team was […]
