The Agile Fairy Tale
And the team continued to deliver working software every two weeks, happily ever after…
A nice fairy tale ending...
Agile and the Curse of Selective Listening
One fine evening, I was trying to have a conversation with my elder kid, Nishaad, on how his day went by. He was watching his favorite TV show, while I was trying to speak and get something out from him...
Process Standardization, Metrics, Agility et al.
Information Technology organizations strive to create and maintain standardized processes that represent the organization’s unique identity, culture, geography, business domain, technology focus and people. An organization understandably evolves its own culture, but this culture varies with geographies, projects, teams and floors...
Random Thoughts
Recently I read The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eli Goldratt and Jeff Cox. I should have read it ages ago, but as they say “Its Better Late than Never”. It’s a thought provoking account of a plant manager trying hard to make his plant productive and come out of the red...
Agile: Is Mindset Shift Really Required?
The story goes like this.
Someone higher in the organization’s ladder decides to adopt agile in some teams. This manager has earlier worked in an agile environment and has seen the benefits...
Agile is not the Goal!!!
When I started with one of my recent engagements as an Agile Coach, I inquired the team about the reason they decided to move to agile from the traditional way of working. The team being part of the vendor team in a client-vendor environment, I had expected a specific answer...
Agile – Is it a Culture or Process?
Nowadays, everyone uses the word “Agile” to mean different things and to their advantage. I’ve seen that this confuses people as they hear multiple things from various perspectives and don’t really know what to do...
