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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'....
CHOW #297 – An Architect’s Dilemma
Mohan, senior IT architect at ABC Bank, was looking at the cloud bills for the first quarter for one of the bank’s newest payments transaction software he helped architect and design. He simply could not believe his eyes and was aghast at the high dollar figure in...
Digitally Speaking: Think like a CEO, Think DevSecFinOps
Among the many responsibilities the CEO of a company has, capital allocation is a critical one. In fact, some of the best CEOs have excelled at this function – think Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos and their ilk. Efficiently allocating the firm’s financial resources to...
CHOW #296: Backlog Blinkers
Bill is a Product Manager in a large software product firm, which has decades of leadership in their target segment. He has over 20 years of experience at this company and has excellent relationship with the major customers of the product. John, the new CEO, had come...
Trend log, no backlog
In my opinion, one of the most overused words in the software industry is ‘innovation’. I understand there is a wide spectrum of enhancements that can be called ‘innovations’ – minor enhancement that improves a business process to a module that supports a new business...
Why only Rugby?
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA Scrum as an Agile approach is now center-stage worldwide, a goliath occupying a staggering 66% of all agile adoptions. The distant second is Scrumban, a mere 9% and the third at 5% tied between Scrum/XP Hybrid...
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