Agile Culture and Mindset – re-visited
Ever since Agile approaches became popular about 15 to 20 years ago, Agile culture and mindset have been touted as the foundation elements around which successful organizational transformation happens. Peter Drucker’s famous quote “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” points to the ineffectiveness of your strategy implementation if the company culture doesn’t support it. In the […]
Navigating through Cultural Differences at the workplace
Introduction Over thirty years ago, I arrived in the US for the first time on a work assignment. The US company assigned a human resources manager to assist me with house hunt, bank account opening, and other basic needs. When it came to opening the bank account, I asked the HR manager a few questions. […]
Gabbaitor: Test of Collaboration
Since 1933 (second ever test match of India) this was the first match where bowlers had the least experience. Since 1947 Australia has never lost to India at Gabba. Since 1988 Australia are undefeated “by any country” in Gabba. 15th Jan 2021 – 11 Indian lambs walk into Gabba (well the top 9 sheep were […]
Chow #181 – Approach for Reorganisation of Collaborative teams?
Kumar is an agile coach with tremendous coaching experience. He had joined an MNC recently as an agile coach and coaching multiple teams. But the organization went through a transformation and now he is part of a central team of coaches. He was excited as he could part of like-minded people. But now all of […]
Organization culture and Agile – how to make it work?
Organization agility is all about culture, and then making a shift requires cultural change. Organizational Culture has often been identified as one of the main challenges in the adoption of agile values and principles. Consequently, organizations may benefit from analyzing the existing organizational Culture even before they decide to start their transformation journey towards agile. But in most cases, Culture was not considered […]
3 ‘i’s of Culture – Importance, Impact and Implementation
What is Culture? – It is ‘The way things work’ In an organization – it is organizational culture. In a team – it is team culture. In a community – it is community culture. While they are all similar, this blog is more about organizational culture. Typically Organizations tend to have fairly well identified […]
CHOW #134 – Individual Discipline in Agile
“Yes. Individual discipline is a key component of an Agile organisation. I will tell you why…” Why and how is individual discipline a key component of an Agile organisation? Can you discuss this in terms of the Agile principles of Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools, Responding to Change over Following a Plan, Simplicity? […]
Mindfulness for Agile Culture and Mindset – Extract from our upcoming book
This blog post is an extract from our upcoming book on organisational agility. The objective of the book is to help leaders, managers and change agents (including internal and external agile coaches) involved in organizational agile transformations and project / program managers, scrum masters and team members address the concerns of IT organizations as they try […]
