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…
Category Archives: Scrum
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…
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…
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…
