A look at non-obvious wastes and “needed” wastes in software development
Waste reduction and elimination is a well-known process in lean implementation. PM Power’s latest book “A Practitioner’s Guide to Enterprise Agility” ( https://www.pm-powerconsulting.com/a-practitioners-guide-to-enterprise-agility/ ) examines this practice and its application in a customer context. Toyota’s Production System (TPS) pioneered this concept as part of their lean manufacturing process. The one thing they did was to […]
A Tale of Two Books
Photo by Torsten Dederichs on Unsplash As I write this post, I am reminded of a classic novel – A Tale of Two Cities, with the story happening in Paris and London around the time of the French revolution. The story events reflect the prevalent culture – good and bad – in Paris and London. […]
Is Dependency a real Challenge? Are we learning?
Scaling Agile discussions always revolve around dependencies. At some point, it even appears as if once the problem of dependencies is addressed, there is nothing more to do in Scaling Agile. To address the dependency, challenge some approaches recommend additional ceremonies – like Scrum of Scrums, some new co-ordination roles, etc. Is dependency a real […]
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 […]
Some fun with Agile
We all know that these are desperate times. The beast called COVID-19 has possessed us like the very devil, and won’t let go. The economy is down, many people have lost their jobs and livelihood. There are tantalizing stories of vaccines coming out soon. But, when soon? But, I feel that the physical masks have […]
CHOW #209 – The hares and the rabbits
The situation “So, you are saying that the main problem with productivity measurements like velocity is that, story points, the basis on which these velocities are measured against, cannot be trusted…” “Yes. Mainly because there are no standards for story points. It is actually a relative measurement. And the main focus of velocity measurements based […]
How I finally learnt Systems Thinking?
Systems Thinking is not a new term in the industry today, especially with those engaged in Agile Transformations. All of us would have seen this term referred in every possible Theme, Objective, Value Statements so on and so forth of an organization embarked on an Agile Transformation. However, understanding and explaining Systems Thinking requires a […]
