Silos only exists in the mind, not in any typical organizational structures. You also embed these silos in the roles and responsibilities in the organizational structure. For example, cost accounting is a trigger for silo mentality. One visible structures that would favor silo mentality and that cou...

    09.29.20 12:33 PM - Comment(s)


    An expert always doubts his/her approach and believes that at least fifty percent of their ideas will be wrong so they always engage and look at the context and keep learning new ideas and concepts. So if you find anyone throwing their ideas down the throat of yours without listening then you can ca...

    09.22.20 09:43 AM - Comment(s)

    Individuals and Interactions Over Processes and Tools


    What is this value and what would be the consequences when we ignore what was written in the footnotes of the Agile Manifesto?


    I hope everyone knows the origins and source of the above value, no attributes are needed. The reasoning behind that valu...

    09.13.20 02:19 PM - Comment(s)


    Key question: Why Scrum is easy to understand and very hard in practice?


    Hope you will find value in this. Please feel free to add your inputs or any arguments.


    “Scrum is not a process, technique, or definitive method. Rather, it is a framework within which you can employ various processes and techni...

    09.07.20 11:25 AM - Comment(s)

    Overview

    This is an attempt to bring forth the core thought process that is needed to develop your organization to have a set of true agile characteristics; this is a state of being agile ( Please don’t confuse with Agile of Agile Manifesto) where your organization will have capabilities to morph in...

    09.07.20 11:17 AM - Comment(s)

    Velocity based on story points and measuring a team progress/productivity based on that velocity is a foundation-less metric. It may be okay for teams to do quick estimate which will save time and to move forward to focus on delivery of value, but any correlation to anything whatsoever with stor...

    09.07.20 11:12 AM - Comment(s)

    Leadership and management are the two sides of the same coin. When we separate both everything in the organizational system falls apart! Being aware of this two sides of the same coin is the first step towards real agility.


    Leadership should exist and is required at all levels; management is about di...

    09.01.20 08:06 PM - Comment(s)




    For all practical purposes the Agile that is going on now is dead and what we see is a spinning wheel that gives life to a dead entity - a merry-go-round wheel that displays colorful lights called certifications and creates melodious sounds through buzz words; this creates a very attractive force fo...

    07.23.20 09:42 PM - Comment(s)

    Introduction

    Scrum and other agile frameworks may be easy to understand, yet prove extremely challenging to implement - especially in any large organizational environment. Why is that so? The following metaphor is an attempt to explain the difficulty. Every metaphor is imperfect, but we will try to g...

    07.23.20 07:44 PM - Comment(s)

    How can we really build a culture that can bring in real agility to our organization? How can we handle culture needed to get the right mindset, and have employees adapt to the new principles and values? How can we tailor a set of process needed to bring in the real agility? What negative impact...

    07.23.20 06:53 PM - Comment(s)