Chow #200 – An adamant Scrum Master
Jack was the Scrum Master of the squad, ‘The Confident’. He had worked as a developer and designer for many years and grown into a Scrum Master. An expert coder that he was he took on the role of Scrum Master with great confidence. He obviously knew everything the squad was working on and thought […]
CHOW # 195 – Dependencies causing delay
The Scrum Team that I was coaching, was one time struggling to finish the items that they have taken up for a sprint. They could not meet the sprint goal. This was discussed in the retrospective, and team brought up dependencies on another Scrum Team which is causing uncertainty and delay. The two Scrum Teams […]
CHOW #194 – Is experimentation doomed?
Arvind a super Scrum Master has been an ardent proponent of test and experiment. He was the Scrum Master for two teams. Govinda the manager of the two teams had his regular catch up with the teams. He said the current covid environment has made the market uncertain. So he has told the team to […]
Chow #192 – Conflicting Methods
You are coaching John, a Product Owner, in prioritization techniques. The team predominantly works on small enhancements alongside a few major functional epics. Small enhancement features are grouped into a couple of Maintenance epics in the tool. Road-map has been prepared by the program team sharing all the epics to be completed in the next […]
Organization culture and Agile – how to make it work?
Organization agility is all about culture, and then making a shift requires cultural change. Organizational Culture has often been identified as one of the main challenges in the adoption of agile values and principles. Consequently, organizations may benefit from analyzing the existing organizational Culture even before they decide to start their transformation journey towards agile. But in most cases, Culture was not considered […]
Is vertical slice of cake really better than horizontal mix of ramen in Agile Data?
I have coached many agile teams and my goal has been to help them towards high performing teams. I see the following main markers for high performance around teamwork, continuous value delivery of product(s) and relentless focus on improvement. In the presence of multiple metrics, organizational structure and KPIs/OKRs, if the foundation element of the […]
Chow #180 – Does Scrum work well with DevOps
How can DevOps team work in Scrum
CHOW #177 – Predictability for a multi-dimensional team
My Finco is a large successful company that has been using technology to run its business for over 4 decades now. Yeddy is a Scrum Master with a team which has some people who have specialized in the systems that are running for years on the mainframe, a set of team members who over the […]
Business Agility – Beyond Capitalism
Today, we have seen agile taking deep roots in the organization. While it began its humble journey when a group of techies were dis-satisfied with the process, it has now moved beyond that into every nook and corner of many an organization. So, business agility is the new mantra. Author and thought leader Steve Denning […]
CHOW #175 – How do you manage high power teams?
There is a story, most probably apocryphal, about a famous research institution in Yorktown Heights, New York, USA. One of the labs in the institution was headed by a manager who was not a scientist himself. All the scientists in the lab working under his direction, more than a hundred of them, were Nobel laureates […]
