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Myriad Marvels of Mindfulness
Mind is a very powerful faculty. Mind is the fundamental instrument for generating thoughts, emotions and actions. Mind has a very big influence on body and in turn on physical health. So, if one can deal with mind properly, one can gain mastery on Self and deal with...
“i-fi” – A Model for Designing Your Future and Personal Change
Abstract This article is the author’s narrative based on his ongoing journey of personal change. Emphasis is on proactive personal change fueled by the desire to shape one’s future. The author progressively outlines a model that could help the readers in their...
Enterprise Agility and Leadership: Transformational Leadership
Abstract A key requirement for Enterprise Agility in an organisation is leadership that fosters and nourishes the right culture and mindset for an agile organisation. The role of leadership in these organisations is selecting the right people and promoting an...
‘Three Track’ Lean-Agile Development? Part 4 – Deployment Space
Introduction In the previous three parts of my article (Why do we need a ‘Three Track’ Lean-Agile Product Development?, ‘Three Track’ Lean-Agile Development: Part 2 – Opportunity Space , ‘Three Track Lean-Agile Development: Part 3 – Solution Space'), I had introduced...
Navigating Remedial Agile
Ok, folks, the title of the post and the picture are a dead giveaway, aren’t they? Yes - the picture is stark and clear to everyone except Miss.Piggy! And, oh, I forgot - Old MacDonald who owns her thinks that the picture, while not perfect, can still be improved. And...
Increasing trend in the team velocity – a myth?
In my experience increasing trend in the team velocity is rarely achieved and/or is difficult to know. This blog was an outcome of my reading the following statement which related with my experience. “While teams will tend to increase their velocity over time—and...
Do we really understand Empowerment?
The term “Empowerment” has been bandied about for several decades – much before Agile approaches became popular. With Agile and self-managed teams, empowerment has almost become a sacred mantra at both a team level as well as in an organizational context. Yet, when...
INVESTing Right
Many of us agile coaches are familiar with the INVEST (Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small and Testable) criteria that stories should meet after refining them. Almost a maxim if you will, supported by text book examples in the classroom. Participants...
CHOW #304: Travails of a young coach
As agile coaches, we have all had our initial travails, cutting our teeth in the first engagement and at times learning the hard way. One can walk down memory lane, maybe with a rueful smile! Here is a quiz of three questions which may make you reminisce! For those...
What does “Being Agile” mean?
Many years back, when I was in the second year of M. Tech (Computer Sc.) program, my hostel mates who took Fortran Programming course, used to consult me when they had any difficulties in programming. On one such occasion, one hostelmate came to me. His teacher had...
Homogenized Team skills for Continuous Delivery
In order to deliver continuously the team skills need to be built to reduce delays in hand-offs. How to do this?
Pandemic Positives!
When we were forced to move to WFH in 2020, with the onset of Covid, a lot of people did not enjoy the model. In addition to the established challenges of working from home, many of us missed coming to office and networking with colleagues. After being forced to...
Dog food for Agile coaches
Many of you would be familiar with the expression “eat your own dog food”. Eating your own dog food or “dogfooding” is the practice of using one's own products or services. Dogfooding is not exactly new. Here are some examples: In February 1980, Mike...
Rebooting Agile – Key patterns to succeed
(Pic Courtesy: ITPro Today) When Agile movement started roughly 15-16 years back, there were multiple reasons why Organizations latched on to it. One is the novelty factor. Agile was a new buzz word then and there was a sense of "Cool"ness associated in marketing...
Chaordic Organizations – in present context
It is not new that developments in one field influences the innovations in another popularly known as 'The Medici Effect' (Ref 5) explained by Frans Johansson in his book 'The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures'....
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