Enterprise Agility is not just about product development today but it’s touching every corner of the organization, be it HR, Sales & Marketing or Finance. Unless each of the enabling functional units also become agile, enterprise agility will remain a myth. And most times, when we have an already existing organization, and we recommend functional…
Kanban Beyond Technology
Human Resources is an important function of an organization today. Like before, it’s no more all about recruitment and people management but a complete paradigm shift on People Development. Today’s organizations are more knowledge workers and hence they are no more looking out for jobs but are aspiring for long lasting and rewarding careers. However,…
ScrumBan Pizza Game
While thtere are quite a few versions of the Kanban Pizza game, I created a customized version of the same for ScrumBan teams where the teams are working in time box and with specific roles like SM, PO but the work is executed more on Kanban fashion. Meaning, there is no estimation and work is…
Agile beyond IT
Agile is such a buzzword now (although I hate to call it buzz word as I truly believe that agile is more a lifestyle). Are there industries using agile beyond IT? Well, we all know Lean and Kanban and similar agile concepts came from automobile industry. My grandparents and that generation were predominantly agriculturists. Now…
My presentation at Regional Scrum Gathering Bangalore 2015
Scaling Agile in Distributed environment – Padma Satyamurthy…
Can a business leader, like a CEO, also be the PO of an organization?
Recently, there was a discussion on LinkedIn, if a CEO of an organization can be the Product Owner as well, for the company. A couple of them quoted Steve Jobs as being both the CEO and PO and quite successful at that. In my coaching experience, I have seen PO and CEO being the same…
Responding to Change vs. Following a Plan
I am from India and live in the southern parts. My neighboring state recently witnessed heavy rain which was followed by flood. Since the state doesn’t receive so much rain and it’s very unusual to rain to the extent that it can cause flood. Hence the preparedness for meeting such disasters are pretty low. A…
Creating Value Stream Mapping – why is it important?
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) allows for a quick visualization of value being realized out of a work being executed. The good thing about VSM is it provides visualization to both the teams as well as the business sponsors to understand and plan for the go to market strategies easily. The value streams are usually a…
Making Daily Stand ups fun and efficient
What happens when teams do not raise impediments during the daily stand up? Sometime, a typical pattern observed in the scrum teams, specially when the team is new to agile is, that they do not raise impediments in the daily stand ups. While they may have answers to the first two questions (What I did yesterday…
