After every Agile conference, agilists return back to work with tons of new ideas. They get excited about these new ideas and would be looking forward to roll them out sooner than later. However, based on my past experiences, I…
I authored the following article for Cutter which got published today. So, it is hot out of the press. The subject that every distributed Agile team is questioning is the topic of setting up visual walls. Conflicts arise when purists…
As I am coaching and mentoring a few start ups in Melbourne and elsewhere, I have noticed common pattern of issues across the board. All start up founders are really enthusiastic and dream of becoming rich –> Nothing wrong with…
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak about Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) at Agile PM meet up group in Melbourne. It was really an honor to speak with such an incredibly experienced, knowledgeable audience. At the end of the…
No one plans to fall sick isn't it? Similarly, when I caught some flu couple of years ago, we were eager to see a doctor. Being new to our suburb, googled around to find a nearby medical center. Took an…
Recently I read an article in the news paper about improving the speed of passport delivery to citizens. This is the news published in Times of India. It seems that passports are getting delayed as the police verification is taking…
Kaizen is popularly associated with continuous learning or continuous improvement. However, where people get wrong is who should continuously improve ? Most Agilists and Leanists use Kaizen in the context of team improvement. That is, an agile team should continuously…
I authored this short post for as part of Agile chronicles. Some time back I noticed something odd with an agile team. Team temperature used to be 10 out of 10, and each team member expressed their happiness working on…
Because the first principle of the Agile Manifesto talks about delivering valuable software to the customer, many agile practitioners are constantly thoughtful of the value in each step of the software-development lifecycle. At the thirty-thousand-foot level, value creation starts with…
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the LAST 2014 (Lean Agile Systems Thinking) conference. This is my second consecutive year of having opportunity to speak at this popular Melbournian event.I have seen this event growing year after…