Transitioning Instruction Takers to Decision Makers

Taking over a new team as a scrum master is challenging, especially when the team has earlier worked in command and control mode and is used to taking instructions and working as instructed. Transitioning it to a state where it takes its own decisions and delivers, needs a good effort and systematic approach. This article […]

CHOW#244 – Fixing the problem

Bob is a manager in an IT product company. His team is responsible for the support and maintenance of a product. His team has started on the agile transformation journey six weeks back and is slowly getting used to the new practices. One of their customers asked for some customizations; the first set of which […]

Making Deadlines Effective

In my previous blog, “Project without a Deadline does not complete”; we looked at the importance of starting a project with an end date in mind. In this blog, we are going to explore this subject of deadlines further and see how to make the deadlines effective. A deadline is a double-edged sword. It can […]