Agile
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You Always Have A Choice!!!
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You always have a choice! If you think about it, you always have a choice. No matter how hard it is to accept, but you always have a choice…
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Agile Can Be Fun…And Enlightening!
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Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about. –Alice Munro…
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Agile and the Unwelcome Change
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~Harold Wilson…
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Agile and the KRA Conundrum
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. -Viktor E. Frankl…
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Agile and the Value of Integrity
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“You know what, I spend only 20% of my effort in coaching on process and practices; the rest 80% goes in coaching the team on behavioral aspects to absorb and realize the Agile values”, said Arojothi Balakrishnan (Aro), a friend and a fellow Agile Coach…
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Agile and the Art of Simplicity
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“Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.” -Thor Heyerdahl…
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The Agile Fairy Tale
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And the team continued to deliver working software every two weeks, happily ever after… A nice fairy tale ending…
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Agile and the Curse of Selective Listening
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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…
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Process Standardization, Metrics, Agility et al.
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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…
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Agile: Is Mindset Shift Really Required?
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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…
