Chow #223 – Dilemma of an Engg Manager on Infrastructure Automation
Ram Khemani is the engineering manager in the enterprise finance team. They have been part of a huge data lake migration for the last 12 months. Last month, they have completed a huge release that was committed by executive leadership to migrate the modules of ledger and revenue management to the new platform. During this […]
CHOW #222 – Connect & Learn
Nilanjana is a data engineering architect for an analytics platform at a large IT company whose main business is to serve FMCG companies’ marketing teams. She comes with strong foundation in databases and data engineering. With her guidance and technical prowess in computing and building systems to handle large amounts of data, Nilanjana has built […]
CHOW #221 – Code Review vs Pair Programming
In a smaller project (small is a subjective term, one may consider what is a small project in their team), would it be better to do a ‘Code Review’ or ‘Pair Programming’ or Both? Suggested Solution: Many times, I’ve been part of ‘Pair Programming’ vs ‘Code Review’ discussions. There are some empirical data on the […]
CHOW #220 – Scrum Team Find Vertical Slicing Increase Waiting
Scenario I taught vertical slicing to the Scrum Team that I was coaching. I used their product architecture as a reference to explain them the way to slice the work to build an end-to-end feature. For long, the team members are used to create and structure their work based on their single function/layer specialization, like […]
CHOW #219 – A new manager’s dilemma
Raju had joined a large company in its India operations as a director. Raju’s manager, the India operations head had told Raju that he was getting to build a challenging division. A colleague of his Gagan was incubating this unit along with his primary unit. Gagan had transferred the reporting of the team members to […]
Chow #217 – How to handle conflict at workplace?
CyberZars is a leading software product development company in the Cyber Security domain. CyberZars practices Scrum/Xp for software development. One of their flagship product OpenConnect is developed by four scrum teams. Chris is a Product Owner (PO) for one of the scrum teams. He gets into regular conflicts with Rick, the PO of the 2nd […]
Chow #216: How best to multi task?
Raveesh was the chief architect at 9to5 corporation. He company had seen significant growth in the last 4 years in a very niche market of Enterprise Application Integration. Their eBbus – or the enterprise business bus, was highly scalable and modular in design and that helped their customers configure and deploy solutions quickly. Raveesh was […]
CHOW #215 – A Crossword Puzzle
Here is a crossword based on our book, ‘The Five Tantras of Enterprise Agility‘ . Have given the solution grid at the end. Now, be honest and don’t look at the answers before trying to solve the puzzle. If you manage to solve the puzzle (without looking at the solution grid, of course), then write […]
CHOW #214 – Role Clarity & Clouded Minds
In this large enterprise IT function, a cross-functional program level team was formed. Purpose of the team was to orchestrate flow of value end-to-end in collaboration with their Scrum teams, portfolio team and other key business stakeholders. Many middle managers were pulled into the team with roles like Program Lead, Chief Scrum Master, Chief Product […]
CHOW #213: Engagement challenges during remote working context
As an Agile Coach, I have observed that many people are struggling with the new engagement context due to remote working arrangements – multitasking at home with kids & other family members and house hold activities, managing attention/focus, not coming on video because of the background context at home, network connectivity issues and so on. […]
