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Up and down the scope management ladder
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash Many of us as rookie Project Managers have got this thing dinned into our heads early in our careers. Manage Scope or perish - especially, if you have bid fixed price to a customer for software development. But the practice of scope...
Transform your organization like you would make Congee
Recently, when I was making the morning Congee, it was a lightbulb moment – to see different approaches similar to some patterns and anti-patterns we see in teams and organizations with transformation initiatives. We see the organization as a structured and organized...
Digitally Speaking: Innovation and Change
We know change drives innovation, and innovation in turn drives change. Over the past few decades we have seen every industry evolve through this virtuous cycle, trying to keep up with it by taking advantage of the key innovations on offer (industry x.0). We are now...
CHOW #282 – An SMB’s Transformation
Mahesh is the CEO of a mid-sized firm in business for several decades in the construction industry, managing to carve for his firm a unique position in certain parts of the value chain. In many ways the firm is a typical SMB (Small and Midsize Business) – relying on...
CHOW #281 – Customer does not want continuous delivery
Mike is a highly experienced product manager in E-CRM, large enterprise software organization. E-CRM has been successful over the last 15 years in selling their enterprise grade CRM solution to businesses primarily in their premises. E-CRM’s leadership has launched an...
Six imperatives to move from on-prem to cloud development model
For new age companies born in the cloud era, their development approach has always been in tune with the demands of cloud delivery and their user base. For software product vendors with enterprise-grade solutions, transitioning to the cloud can be quite a challenge....
‘Three Track’ Lean-Agile Development: Part 2 – Opportunity Space
Introduction In the part-1 of my article (Why do we need a ‘Three Track’ Lean-Agile Product Development?), I had introduced the idea of how the product creation process is all about transformation of Ideas into Value. Success can come only after value gets created and...
Six learnings from working with estimating in Agile
One of the most discussed and explored topics in the software industry, arguably the most, has to be estimation. I have enjoyed coaching teams on how to use different approaches / techniques in their Agile context. Needless to say, I have learned a lot doing that....
An apt approach for the Scrum Master
The Scrum Master (SM) has to ensure that the Team meets the delivery commitments on a sustained basis. For that the SM has to enable the team members to focus and perform. SM has to do this as a facilitative leader and not as a traditional directive leader. This is a...
CHOW #277: How will my manager review my performance in an Agile team?
You are the Agile coach in an organization that has embarked in its journey to adopt Agile. You have completed the initial assessment, done tailored training sessions for the teams and started coaching the leaders and teams. The Scrum teams are formed by drawing...
Which came first? Overmanaging leaders or needy associates?
Yet another holiday season is upon us. The second in the vicious grip of the runaway COVID virus. We have run halfway through the Greek alphabet trying to name these ever-evolving bugs. Anyway, the word 'vicious' got be thinking about a vicious circle that many...
Do you feel psychologically safe at work?
Context Several years ago, I conducted a skip-level exit interview with a software engineer on my team. I did not work directly with this person in the past year, but I had heard good things about him. I was surprised to learn from him that the main...
Delegate – for betterment
Managing a business or leading a team requires effective delegation of responsibilities. However, we often see this not happening effectively and as a result, progress gets hampered in many fronts. Delegation is something we are exposed to a lot in our...
CHOW #272: Transitioning to an Agile Leader
Padma works as a Project Manager in the IT division of one of the reputed retail organizations. She has always been quite ambitious and loved to take risks. She was one of the go-to Managers when it comes to taking up new and complex projects. Because of her risk...
Images that Inspired a Successful Change
Images have the power to inspire. And as human beings, we connect to images and stories around those much faster than we connect to words. When I began Agile transformation with one of the business units for my client organization, I thought of using these images....
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