CHOW #233 – What’s in a name?
That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet; — Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 43-44 What lesson about Agile can we learn from these famous lines of Shakespeare’s Juliet? Suggested Solution The lesson we can learn is that we have to understand the main intent behind […]
CHOW # 232 – Can a leader overcommunicate?
Jagdish came to me with a question – can a leader ever overcommunicate? I remember reading a mail from the CEO to all managers in that organization that they are going through a major shift in their business strategy and that all managers should follow the three rules of change management. Communicate. Communicate more. Communicate […]
CHOW # – 231 Adapter
You are part of a team that is programming in RUST. The team understands the benefits of RUST in the entirety. Your team is aware that Rust is blazingly fast and memory efficient. They are now boldly refactoring the application thanks to the type system and ownership model. One of the use-cases demands you to […]
CHOW # 230 – How to deal with Half-Life of Skills?
Srinivas is a manager in a Global Competence Center (GCC) and has a department of around 40 engineers. The GCC works on several Smart Devices and Connected Products. His department provides features within these Products related to wireless technologies. Srinivas has organized his people into 5 Agile Teams. One agile team is comprising of very […]
CHOW # 229 – Should you re-size your stories or not?
Sharada is the Scrum Master for the team that delivers the Case Management module for NextGenPlatform Inc’s Digital Transformation platform. The team finished their release planning three weeks ago and completed the product increment for their first sprint last Friday. They are into their sprint planning session for sprint 2. The PO provides details on […]
CHOW #228 – Daily Stand-up over Email
You are coaching a team based in another location. You have made good progress with Kathy (Scrum Master), Mark (Product Owner) and the team MasterMinds. When you interact with the team after the Thanksgiving break, you notice that the team has started doing their daily stand-up over email. You learn that Kathy left on vacation a […]
CHOW # 227 – Prioritizing Work Items
Suresh, a scrum master, is preparing for the upcoming sprint planning session along with his product owner Ravi. One of their developers has suggested that the improvements to the search algorithm that she has identified, can be included in the next sprint and address the negative feedback received from the customer on search speed. However, […]
CHOW #226 – Visual Cues for being Agile
Let me share one of my experiences with a Financial Organization that I was coaching last year. I was scheduled to meet one of the visiting leaders from US, Alan. He managed one of the key Business Units in the company and was known as one of the forward-looking leaders. He and his team took pride […]
CHOW# 225 – Leave your baggage behind
Samson worked for five years and proved to be a good developer and a tech lead before being chosen to lead a project, with a lot of technical unknowns and challenges. Samson was very excited to lead the project and rolled his sleeves up and executed the specification sign off with the client very well. […]
CHOW #224 – Scrum Master role in the Operations/Support world
Pravin has been coaching the development team for a few months on the implementation of Scrum. There were a lot of improvement ideas and opportunities that he and his team gathered for the Product team, operation teams during the retrospective. When he tried speaking to them to understand their processes and see if he can […]
