While conducting a leadership boot-camp (a part of a leadership cohort) at Denovo Solutions few weeks ago, one of the participants made an observation that went something like this, “Kumar”, he said, “I don’t mean this in a negative way at all, but what we’ve been...
Traditional Approaches to Change Management “We live in a world that’s constantly changing, becoming more unstable each day, where changes big and small are becoming more unpredictable” “It’s becoming more difficult to anticipate events or predict how they’ll unfold”...
DevOps is a hot topic and every enterprise is trying to implement it to stay relevant in the industry. When I was introduced to DevOps I was highly skeptical that it would work because we were talking about over 40...
After facilitating the “Game without Thrones” – an activity that is intended to introduce participants to a descaling paradigm – several times, I’d like to share some learnings. The game itself was great fun to facilitate, and who...
“Do we have to use Scrum?”, “Do we have to use Jira?”, “I’m not sure we can form as dedicated teams”. These were comments and questions I was asked as I was started with a client. The questions they asked were tentative,...
The Path from a Scrum Master to Agile Coach What does it mean to be a Scrum Master? The Scrum Guide defines the role as someone who upholds the values and principles of Scrum, someone who helps the rest of the team understand Scrum...
Most organizations have much more to do than they have time for. And the most common solution to that is to work more hours. The result is almost always the opposite of the intent - the systems gets overloaded and we get...