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The AI Buzz: Is Agile dying?
AI is rapidly transforming various sectors, prompting discussions, especially at India’s first Global AI Summit. As Agile practitioners face changes due to AI automating mundane tasks, they need to rethink practices beyond traditional frameworks. The core values of Agile remain relevant, emphasizing creativity and human interaction, while exploring new innovations.
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What work do you do the whole day?
Recently during on of my CSM classes, one of my participants mentioned this. They were asked this by their manager in their annual performance review “What work do you do the whole day” and I was left wondering , where have I heard this before ? and then came the flashback! Cut back to 1990s,…
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It’s good to be bored
Yes, you read it right. I am asking you to be bored. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it! But.. if you feel stressed out, burnt out, running between meetings, running calls from morning to evening, having family time only on Sundays and you are trying to find excuses to slow down, you suffer from the un-bored syndrome.…
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The Agile Education Manifesto
We are discovering better ways to help students at all levels gain knowledge and learn new skills and topics and through this research and observation, we have come to value: Feedforward OVER Feedback Healthy Collaboration OVER Unhealthy competition Agile Learning Culture OVER Comprehensive content Adaptive Learning approaches OVER Rigid traditional approaches While there is value…
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Agile Vendor Management Manifesto
The Objective of this Manifesto is to define guiding principles around the Customer-Supplier working environment with regards to working on Scrum projects. The assumptions made are: Opening Statement The Customers and Suppliers are integrated elements of a working environment in a project. The Customers and Suppliers will work together with a common goal and that…
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Did you keep your currency?
Well, not the Greenback or Gandhiji kind I mean here. I more talk about what the aviation industry uses this term for.. ‘Recentness of experience’ You got your certification, CSM, CSPO, PSM, PMP, SAFe, LeSS practitioner and all those acronyms that you could earn, but what after… Did you put them aside just like we…
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Manifesto for Agile Software Development (in Hindi)
चपल संगणक भाष्य विकास के लिये घोषणा पत्र हम निरंतर संगणक भाष्य विकास की उन्नत तकनीकों की खोज कर रहे हैं और अन्य जनों की इस खोज में सहायता कर रहे हैं । इस शोध के आधार पर हम प्रक्रियाओं और उपकरणों की बजाय मानव और उनके पारस्परिक संवादव्यापक प्रलेखन की बजाय सक्रिय संगणक भाष्यआनुबंधिक…
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Father of the Bride: Essentials of the Product Owner’s role
Product Owner’s role is one of the primary roles on the Scrum but as it is with most of the Scrum practices and Agile principles , Everyone interprets it in their own way. As was trying to find examples of a PO’s role, I remembered Steve Martin (who else…..) [And if you are thinking why…
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Be who you are – Essentials of a ScrumMaster’s role
A ScrumMaster is a lot of things – Mentor, Guide, Buddy, Coach, Shoulder to cry upon, Teacher, Specialist and many more .. But, if we think deeper….Can one person really be all of these at once?? I think the nearest super humans we know, who can pull of all of these responsibilities without batting an…
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Is ‘Agile’ a substitute for your messy culture?
800 teams , more than 100 organizations that I have coached to build an Agile culture and practices, but a peculiar thing that I have noted. I probably had not paid attention to this earlier, but as I was looking back and analyzing the pre and post transformation status of lot of my clients, I…
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The various hats of a Scrum Master
Process Champion, Facilitator, Buddy, Coach, Mentor, Ear to listen to, Shoulder to cry upon, The friend you can confess with, The non-judgmental listening box, the savior, the rescuer and more… Well, if you combine all these adjectives , what you get is your Ideal Scrum Master.. but.. but but.. nothing in this world is IDEAL…
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The $101 experiment!
The world around us has changed a lot in last 365 days. The way we connect, the way we meet, the way we talk, the way we travel and ALSO the way we learn. As the ways of learning changed, it opened a Pandora’s box. Now, a trainer sitting in Bengaluru, Mumbai or Ahmedabad, could…
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Is being free and open a sin or a responsibility?
If you have seen the NetFlix documentary, Wild Wild Country on Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh (or Osho, as he was called in later years), or have been intrigued by what happens and used to happen in the Osho Ashram in the tony Koregaon Park neighborhood of Oxford of the east, Pune read on.. but … If…
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Your best chance to be an Outlier!
We all have been to a zoo once in our lifetime, sometimes as a child, some times accompanying our children. Do you remember that excitement that we used to have as kids to see an African Giraffe or a Gorilla or Sea Lions, all the way from a different country and continent ? But while…
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The Origin of Conflict!
Nah! I am not going into the boring old topic of conflict management here. umm, there has been enough said about it. Actually, this came up in some of my deep discussions with my daughter about one of her research topics in school on ‘how does religion affect the laws?’. So, we have been debating…