Today, we are living in a BANI world—Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, and Incomprehensible. The BANI model describes a new world in which the old values and rules no longer apply. This is a shift post COVID-19 from the existing VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) environment. Many frameworks helped guide organizations through the VUCA world. However, the…
Introduction About Niko Niko Calendar Have you ever conducted an elaborate team engagement survey and found some numbers pointing to the team’s health but lacked a good insight into the real issues? Have you been left only with data points but no better understanding of the actual emotions of the team? Do you struggle to…
Introduction to OKR Software Tools Most companies are now moving towards objective-driven business and validating them with measurable outcomes. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) have emerged as a powerful framework to help teams align efforts, track progress, and achieve ambitious goals. With the growing adoption of the OKR framework, there is also a strong sense…
Introduction We have been driving SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) inspired agile transformation at one of our customer’s place and after launching multiple ARTs (Agile Release Trains) and setting up the LACE (Lean Agile Center of Excellence), we have reached at a maturity level to set up VMO or Value Management Office. This name, VMO, can…
Introduction to Kanban Vs Scrum Scrum and Kanban are two of the most popular frameworks in agile, which have revolutionized the way teams deliver projects. Both the frameworks emphasise on collaboration, flexibility, adaptability and continuous development, but both of these frameworks take different approaches to achieve these objectives. While Scrum and Kanban are the two…
Introduction Design Thinking Prototypes With the industry moving towards agile ways of working and fast paced delivery, user centricity and competition have become key aspects to consider for any business. If your product or service is not what the actual users need, there are 10 other competitors present in the market to eat up your…
Introduction to Agile Transformation Roadmap Why should organizations pursue agility? What’s in it for them? We live in an age of chaos. Fast, rapid, unpredictable, and unprecedented changes drive the business environment. Technology, people, competition, global geopolitics, and social structures are changing at a pace that has not been seen in human history. ‘Knowing’ what…
Introduction to Agile Vs Lean There has always been confusion regarding whether Agile and Lean (Agile vs Lean) are the same. While Agile methodology and Lean share similar intent and principles, their application can vary depending on the nature of the work. Popular frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP are often used in software development to…
Introduction to LACE ‘Lean Agile Center of Excellence!’ Isn’t it a fancy name? 🙂 Imagine LACE or ‘Lean Agile Center of Excellence’ as a group of people who are passionate about making processes leaner, more efficient and easy to understand for everyone within an organization. Being part of LACE is an additional responsibility they take…
Introduction As a working professional, if you get a chance to talk to our parents about how things were in their era then it is likely that they will talk more about consistency, stability and assurance. The business world, and by that extension the organizations during their times were stable, they had little disruptions in…
