Performance Appraisal : Bell Curve or Absolute Performance – What’s good?
Over the last three decades of my corporate life, I have always found that this topic has always evoked passion at all points of time. Everybody has a perspective and a logic to go along with it. My own views in the early part of my career used to be biased based on which approach […]
Keeping Daily Scrum focused…
The Daily Scrum is one ceremony that the teams following Scrum adopt quickly. There are some hiccups initially, which are sorted out, often with inputs from the coach/guide. The ceremony is on time and at fixed time, occurs even if Scrum Master is not present, team members unable to attend do call in or provide […]
How does one create a DevOps Culture?
This is probably the most frequently asked question related to adopting or rolling out a DevOps initiative in an organization. We need to look at this question more closely based on the principles of DevOps. While traditionally, organizations are structured into functional silos or departments, value for a customer is not created by any one […]
Acting like a true Program Manager
We often hear from customers that new Program Managers in their organization tend to behave very much like Project Managers that they once were. How we can make these folks “think and act like Program Managers”, they ask. A short answer is that these new Program Managers need · An understanding of the core concepts […]
What are some typical risks / challenges in an Agile journey?
The following are some common challenges that every team and organization embarking on an Agile transformation journey Have you faced any of these or other challenges? How did you overcome them?
How to begin a DevOps journey?
Image source : blogs.msdn.com // https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriancockcroft One question that I get asked frequently, when talking about DevOps is: where do I begin? A follow-up question is – Can you recommend any checklist or set of steps to get into DevOps? My short answer to that question is: start where you can show some short term […]
Coaching vs Command & Control style of Management
Leaders have only two jobs: 1) Getting work done 2) Growing the people Coaching as a leadership/management style achieves both. With Command & Control approach, managers may get the work done in the short term, by force. But that might have negative impacts on the team in terms of : – Lack of ownership – […]
Questioning and Asking Questions – what is the difference?
A speaker finishes a great speech – at least, HE thinks it is great! He then asks, “Any questions?” What does he expect? If I were him, I would expect the audience to demonstrate a level of understanding of what the speech was all about and ask meaningful questions – clarifying the ground covered and […]
Journey of a coach – theory & practice (Part I)
This article is part of the series on “Journey of a coach” covering my experiences as a performance coach. You may have the read an earlier article in the series on “Journey of a coach – the beginning”. The journey continues here… Yogi Berra, New York Yankees baseball player (arguably the best catcher of all […]
Networking – when and how to begin?
One is never without a network and if you are reading this – it may be more to know how to grow it and/or to overcome obstacles, often due to one’s level comfort with so called “networking”. If you look at how you: you will see that a network – formal, informal or virtual (internet […]
