by Zafar Ahmad | Jun 3, 2019 | Chow
Mark is a manager in a global software product development organization. He manages a 15-member team of software developers and testers. His team is a high-performance team and they deliver consistently meeting expectations of the management and the customer. Alex is...
by S Vasudev | Aug 14, 2015 | Agile, Coaching, Leadership, Mindfulness
A frequent question or topic of discussion with Scrum Masters, in course of coaching, is on motivation. How does one motivate the team members? A difficult question, which does not have “a” right answer/ approach. As a leader, one needs to deliver what is...
by S Srinivasan | Jul 7, 2015 | Coaching, Leadership, Mindfulness, Personal Growth
I began life as a child, and still continue to behave like one. I started my working years as an individual contributor, and still continue to be one. In addition to this in my wonderful journey of life and work I have also become a parent and a team manager....
by S Srinivasan | Jun 24, 2015 | Business Agility, Leadership, Personal Growth, Project Management
Over the last three decades of my corporate life, I have always found that this topic has always evoked passion at all points of time. Everybody has a perspective and a logic to go along with it. My own views in the early part of my career used to be biased based on...
by S Vasudev | Apr 11, 2015 | Agile, Coaching, Leadership
Teams new to Scrum have a product backlog. The backlog will be groomed to some degree, typically have clarity for up to one to two sprints. The priority will be clear, with fair amount of detail on the requirements. The estimates may be present, it could be story...