CHOW – The Challenge of the Week
This section will highlight some of the challenges we face in our work situations – sometimes bordering on the personal aspects as well.
These are situations that may not be classified as black or white. While there could be some good practices and patterns to handle these, the actual resolution will depend on the specific context and the disposition of the person solving the challenge at that time.
Over time, with your active participation, we hope that for every situation, we can get a broader perspective of how different people have managed the situation.
- share your perspective on how the situation can be approached
- describe what has worked – and what has not, in your own experience
- pose your own related or additional challenges to hear from others
The Challenges will usually be open for two weeks before the suggestions from PM Power coaches are published.
CHOW #258 – Team Working Norms
Pic Credit: Music vector created by pch.vector - www.freepik.com Sukriti had joined as a new Scrum Master for a team that worked for internal technology group of a Financial Services Organization. She had come from a products-based organization that was known in the...
CHOW #257 – Have some empathy
Patrick was asked to join a new project for a healthcare company. He found out that the project is in a platform that he has good familiarity and also understands the domain very well. He was also preparing a paper as a part of his online certification course in...
Chow #256 – Leveraging WebAssembly
The Challenge: Your team is excited about the potential benefits of WebAssembly. Your team wants to try it in their application. How, as a team member, do you approach this? Suggested Answer: Prioritized Goal: We need to identify where we should improve rather than...
Chow #255 – Would you choose this project?
CHOW #254 – How to Determine the Number of Teams Required for a Development Work?
Scenario This question came from one of the organizations I was helping in Agile Coaching in Telecom Industry. A member from the senior leadership team asked how he can determine the number of teams and team members required for a development work? I asked...
CHOW #253 – Horses for courses in the Machine Learning Race
Julia is the Chief Technology Officer at ABC Corp., which operates in a highly regulated industry. Last year under Julia’s leadership the technology department played a central role in driving several key operational efficiency improvement initiatives at the firm,...
CHOW #252 – Release Planning to Continuous Planning
After a leadership awareness session on Continuous Planning & Continuous Delivery, Ram walks up to the coach with a puzzled look. Continuous Planning is expected to help the unit respond faster in a dynamic environment and focus on delivering value. The unit that...
Challenge of the Week (CHOW) #251: So far, yet so close
While attempting this CHOW, it would be useful for you to take a look at the related blog “Shifting gears in mentoring – an experience”. You are the mentor for Fahid, a bright young lad who is a first-year student of Computer Science and Engineering. Fahid...
Chow #250 – Parallel tracks in any transformation
Victor seemed to be immersed with some chart on his desk and fully focused on that, when Bardhan walked in. Bardhan saw some parallel arrows drawn on the chart and the axes marked as Value, Maturity on the Y dimension and Cadence of development and releases on the X...
CHOW #249 – How do you budget for Agile implementation?
The question is, how do you budget for Agile implementation, if at all? Please refer to the model built by PM Power Consulting mapping Stakeholder outcomes to Agile enablers here. Can you use this model to budget for Agile implementation? If so, how? Can you...
CHOW #248 – Sensitivity during these(covid) times
Harshita is a scrum master for a team. With the Covid situation across India, the team has been dull and in a very somber state. As a scrum master, she could understand and relate to the situation that the team has been going through. At an organization level, there...
CHOW #247 – How do you make ‘visual’ your culture?
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash Anmol Benjamin is the head of the technical center for a high technology Telecom company. There are more than 1000 engineers working in this center. They work on a variety of projects and products. Anmol has been working as the head...
CHOW 246 – Getting technical managers to understand how to do good project reviews
Ashish Agarwal, VP of Engineering Services for IOU India Pvt Ltd., the Indian Engineering services arm for IOU Inc. in the US, was doing his Department reviews with his Directors. This is his first monthly review meeting since joining the company about a month ago....
CHOW #245- Swarming in teams
Ashok is the Scrum Master for the Black Hawks team. The team has completed the 5th Sprint with him as the Scrum Master and also the Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. The team was not able to close a high priority story due to a technical impediment. The team is...
CHOW#244 – Fixing the problem
Bob is a manager in an IT product company. His team is responsible for the support and maintenance of a product. His team has started on the agile transformation journey six weeks back and is slowly getting used to the new practices. One of their customers asked for...
CHOW#243 – Agility in HR
Devina heads the HR department of a large investment bank in India. She had heard about Agile but thought that it was more of a skillset required in the IT department. Her company is in the process of undergoing Enterprise Agile Transformation and was moving in the...
CHOW #242 Impact of management style while WFH
Hema was the delivery head for a healthcare client with JCN incorporated. Rahim, Radha and Rachel, reported to Hema. Rahim was responsible for Software delivery, Radha for medical transcription and Rachel first-line IT support to the client.The three of them had their...
CHOW #241 Will tasking reduce knowledge silos?
Do you think tasking would help reduce the creation of knowledge silos? Would it help developers rotate stories/tasks easily? Suggested Solution: Tasking done effectively, would help share the knowledge within the team. I've worked with teams that tasked their stories...
CHOW#240 Stay in touch with your Customers
Photo by Joseph Rosales on Unsplash Suniti is a product manager in a company that’s been building products and platforms for logistics management in the transportation industry. She moved into this role from a previous one where she was an on-site installation...
CHOW #238 – Do managers unintentionally try to micromanage the team?
Susan is a Scrum Master of a software product development team. The team was formed six months ago and is new to Agile and Scrum. The team is working hard but not able to deliver as per the expectation of the business. Susan feels that the team members have adequate...
CHOW #237 – Running out of collaboration?
Inzamam-ul-Huq (Inzy) was a great player for Pakistan in the nineties. Beyond his batting classics, he was known for the most bizarre run-outs in the history of cricket. There were players who have had more run-outs than Inzy, and have got more partners run-out than...
CHOW #236 – Open Source and Architecture
Shyam is the Chief Architect in the IT Department of YourBank and, as can be expected, plays a key role in all the bank’s major digital initiatives. In one of the bank’s highly visible mission-critical AI/ML program, there is a need to build a complex ML engine that...
CHOW #235 – Relentless focus on new functionality
Sam is a strong product owner with clear focus on customer priorities. He interacts with customer and user groups regularly and is committed to adding value to them. He drives the priorities for three different scrum teams and demands high standards from the teams in...
CHOW #234 – Psycho safety: in two minds?
Phiroze Batliwala is the leader of a team enhancing a software product with advanced features for forecasting consumer behaviour. His team consisted of three senior members and six relatively fresh people. The three seniors generally led discussions on technical...
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