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CHOW #275: Agile HR!
This Challenge of the Week (CHOW) is related to the blog on "Doing Agile Right - Balance". Kishore is a friend of mine and head of the people function in a young software organization based in Mumbai. He got inspired by the book Doing Agile Right referred to in the...
CHOW #268 – Who do you support?
You are an agile coach working with a group of middle managers as part of an enterprise transformation effort. There are coaches at senior leadership level up in the hierarchy and lower in the scrum team level. Middle managers are going about the transformation effort...
Four lessons learnt while coaching leaders
I have been working with leaders in the last few years as an agile coach. When I say ‘leaders’, these are people in middle management roles in large corporates. Intent of this blog is to share some of the lessons I learnt in the process. In the agile world, it is...
Rebus based Agile Crossword
All clues are given as rebuses. To solve each clue look at the rebus corresponding to the clue. The answer indicated by the rebus is the solution to the clue. Note that all solutions are words related to Agile. Happy Rebusing and Crosswording! (Note that Rebuses...
Why do we need a ‘Three Track’ Lean-Agile Product Development – 1?
Image courtesy: https://unsplash.com/s/photos/innovation Introduction Smart Products are exploding with Software content & Consumerization be it in Automotive, Healthcare, Consumer or Industrial domains. Contribution of the software innovation to the overall...
Doing Agile Right – Balance!
From the book cover: Agile has the power to transform work – but only if it is implemented the right way. The book dispels the myths and misconceptions that have accompanied agile’s rise to prominence – that it can reshape an organization all at once; or that it...
Transformational Leadership – An Interactive Book
Role and Title – what is the difference?
One question that I get regularly from most teams and organizations that I have coached in their Agility journeys, is related to choosing the persons to play the 'new' roles of scrum master of product owner. On the face of it, such questions seem simple to answer. One...
The sorting ceremony. Is Rust Blazingly Fast?
Is Rust blazingly fast? The first claim of the Rust language as stated on their web page is “Rust is blazingly fast and memory-efficient: …”. Around 82,000 developers who participated in the Stack Overflow developer survey had voted Rust as the most loved...
A story to help with sustaining focus
One of the challenges typically faced by the teams adopting scrum is not being able to focus on their work without interrupts. I was reminded of this by the recent blog from my colleague JV, where he mentions “Too many / too much time with Agile meetings”. Interrupts...
Agility Crossword
This crossword uses the theme Lean Thinking; i.e. all answers are term that are relevant to Lean Thinking. All the best.
Addressing three potential causes of failures with Agile/Scrum
The trigger for this blog is a blog I recently came across written by a developer on failures with agile. He had actually talked about why organizations are bound to fail with Agile. This was a very strong message but I must say that the author had lots of valid...
Digital Divide – By Zero?!
Divide by zero? No, not allowed, indeterminate etc., our math teachers told us. At that time, most of us did not ask “But, why?” As students, ours was not to question teachers – at least back then. Recently, I came across a nice simple answer. Here goes. Apparently,...
Navigating through Cultural Differences at the workplace
Introduction Over thirty years ago, I arrived in the US for the first time on a work assignment. The US company assigned a human resources manager to assist me with house hunt, bank account opening, and other basic needs. When it came to opening the bank...
CHOW 260: PO overpowering SM
Murugan joined an organization as a Scrum master. One of the teams that he was asked to coach has been in running mode at a fast pace for 2 months already. The team has been doing basic agile practices such as having a time-boxed work commitment, daily standup, and...
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