Is Agile killing individual performance?
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Introduction Agile principles and methods promote team working. Agile emphasizes the team’s success. Practicing agile methods in the right ways in organizations leads to high-performing teams. On the other hand, there is an often talked about perceived concern. The concern is around the performance of the individuals in a team. Occasionally, I have experienced situations […]
Stress level in Indian software industry
1. Thought trigger Recently, I was talking to a young and bright software engineer who works for an Analytics software company in Bangalore. This boy graduated in engineering in the year 2017 and joined this company as a fresh graduate engineer. At the time of joining, he was very excited as this company was his […]
Thoughts that plague a manager’s mind
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As a consultant, I come across many project and program managers in the IT world. I always wondered why most of their faces looked to be in pain. I was then enlightened by a long-time family friend who happens to be a homemaker. She mockingly said, “Hadn’t you seen your own face in the mirror […]