Chow #140 – How do I structure my new tribe?
Daniel looks after the supply chain product in a 60-year-old company. He reports into the Chief Information Officer. Currently the systems run on a traditional mainframe with some interfaces to the external world using UNIX gateways. The software is developed and maintained by Peter with 12 of the company’s long-timers, who have grown up with […]
What makes self-managed teams different?
Having worked with several teams over the years, I dare say less than 10% of the Agile teams I have worked with could be classified as “genuinely self-managed”. However, that does not mean that the goal of becoming a self-managed team is unrealistic. With an organization culture that is conducive to teams feeling empowered, self-managed […]
CHOW #45- Challenge in doing Agile maturity assessment for a third time around
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CHOW #15- “Tell them to behave” – A scrum master problem
You are a scrum master and you find that your team does not attend the daily stand-up on time and you also find that most of the team members do not update their tasks in the iteration tracker. Burn-down is never up to date. You see this as a culture issue and would like to […]
CHOW #13– Getting the best from and individual contributor in a Scrum team
Judy, the newest member in the team that you are the Scrum Master for, walks up to you to discuss a challenge she has been facing. After her first week of self study of project artefacts, and understanding the coding standards, the source file structures in the repository as well as the commit, build etc […]
CHOW #5- How to build a culture of valuing the values in the team?
You have taken over a new team as manager. You notice that there are several behavioral issues in the team, like a few of the members not being punctual, a few others not taking responsibility, and generally team not collaborating with each other etc. This is affecting the project work and is impacting the outcomes of […]
CHOW #2– What should be the plan for Knowledge transfer?
You are transitioning support and maintenance of a legacy application from the customer to an onsite/offshore team. The customer has asked you to provide a plan for the Knowledge Transfer (KT) phase comprising: – Number of people onsite (assume New York City), duration and their activities – Number of people offshore (assume Bangalore), duration and […]
Common areas of Development for Project Managers
When we started on the journey of PM Competency Development using our ProMentor Framework, one of the inputs was the assessment of the individual. This was done based on formal inputs from their managers, using custom in-house instruments; as well as a self assessment. The self assessment would include a one-on-one interaction where we could […]
How does one create a DevOps Culture?
This is probably the most frequently asked question related to adopting or rolling out a DevOps initiative in an organization. We need to look at this question more closely based on the principles of DevOps. While traditionally, organizations are structured into functional silos or departments, value for a customer is not created by any one […]
