CHOW #300 – Navigating coaching practices

Photo by Conor Luddy on Unsplash You are coaching an eight-member team in Pune, part of a large multinational in the tech sector. The team is self-sufficient with the Product Owner & Product Management also being located in Pune. The team is now facing a tool-related challenge. A new tool has been introduced globally for […]

Coaching lessons I learnt from watching a movie

I had watched the movie ‘The Legend of Bagger Vance’ long ago and forgotten about it until one of my fellow coaches reminded me of it. Now that I was an Agile coach for a while I thought it would be interesting to watch it again. It was really amazing and I thought I had […]

Is vertical slice of cake really better than horizontal mix of ramen in Agile Data?

I have coached many agile teams and my goal has been to help them towards high performing teams. I see the following main markers for high performance around teamwork, continuous value delivery of product(s) and relentless focus on improvement. In the presence of multiple metrics, organizational structure and KPIs/OKRs, if the foundation element of the […]

CHOW #88 – The Case of the PO-ed PO!

Peter Cohn is the Product Owner(PO) for the maintenance and enhancement of a CRM platform in a large product development organization. The CRM platform is an industry leader unifying case management, business process management, robotics and AI-based decision making. Peter is located in New York City (NYC) working with the company’s product management locally and […]

Future of Agile coaching – Composites!

I was reading about composite materials or composites a few days back. Composites have made many improvements and breakthroughs possible – from baseball bats, to prosthetic limbs and heat shields for spacecraft. It led me to think about extending the concept of composites to coaching for Agile transformations. Composites essentially blend materials with different physical and […]