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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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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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Handovers are costly, but do we learn our lessons?
With the arrest of Shivinder Singh and Malvinder Singh, the famed Singh brothers of Ranbaxy, the all too familiar story in the Indian conglomerates is getting repeated. Few years back it was the Mallayas and even before that, the Ambanis! So, what are we talking about here? Well, it is the monster in the room…
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Corner room Churn: Burnout on the Hamster wheel!
The pressure is growing… The results are frustrating… Stakeholder expectations are mounting… Easy way out… Quit ! As per a data collected from nseinfobase.com and analysed by @economictimes, the churn of CEO and MDs almost doubled between 2013-2018 (This data is only for companies listed on NSE)(https://bit.ly/31NuTvY) We also have examples of Shri V G Siddhartha, Shri…
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Certified ScrumMaster/ Certified Agile Coach – an achievement or a beginning ?
In Japan, the April – May season is synonymous with the beautiful beginning of Spring. The Sakura flowers cover the ground, trees and just about everywhere. You can see them in their beautiful hue making the spring season magical. And that, reminds me of the bloom of ‘Agile Coaches’ in India, Asia and across the…
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So,What is Agile Really?
So, you have been confused, what to call Agile ? Is it a process, a framework, a methodology or may be something beyond all of the above. There have been many definitions, texts and books which talk about what Agile is and the definitions are myriad, varied, sometimes humorous and sometimes out-right ridiculous. Agile Software…
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Agile: It’s about a matter of choice
I vividly remember that December of 2003. Sitting down with team from my employers and IJI (Ivar Jacobson International), we were discussing on how we could create a tool, which would help Agile and Scrum practitioners, find out their way around being more Agile, as everyone than was confused: how to start using Agile? and…