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…
“Begin with the end in mind.” – Stephen Covey In the often-murky waters of software project management, having a clear “end” is half the battle, so we can not agree totally with Mr. Covey here. We’ve all been there, haven’t we? Staring at project plans that resemble an enigma wrapped in a riddle, a veritable…
Introduction In today’s world where there is a lot of competition, product development is not just about developing what a company thinks the users need. Rather it is about developing what the actual users want. There has been more emphasis on frameworks like design thinking and user centric design etc. and there has been growing…
Introduction to Agile Project Management Techniques The term “Agile” has become a catchphrase in today’s rapidly evolving digital transformation era. Agile embodies values like flexibility, transparency and adaptability and it’s increasingly being integrated into a variety of processes and projects across industries. The Agile approach is based on four fundamental values and twelve guiding principles,…
Introduction to Team Velocity As we all know that velocity is calculated by dividing displacement by time taken. i.e. the amount of work done when divided by time taken to complete the work, gives us the average velocity. However, velocity is different from speed. Velocity isn’t just about how fast something moves, it also considers…
Introduction Today, though many organizations have adopted agile for development and delivery of the projects, a big chunk is still following the waterfall model. Some, out the ones who claim to have adopted Agile are actually not Agile but think they are since they follow or rather pick and choose a few Agile ceremonies as…
Introduction Agile has changed the way teams deliver value focussing on customer needs, collaboration and pivoting which is also the way of looking at product delivery in the current times. We have seen the adoption of agile ways of working growing rapidly with not just the teams, but organisations also adopting agile for their businesses….
Introduction to OKR Examples for Consulting Firms “Objectives are not commands, they are commitments.” – by Peter F. Drucker We all have heard a lot of stories on wisdom when we were growing up and I will start this blog by sharing one of my favorite stories – The farmer & his 4 sons. Once…
Introduction to Agile Coach Bringing change through agile coaching is a 3 step journey – An agile coach helps a target area to attain the different levels till that focused group becomes self-organizing, self-managing and high performing. This Blog aims at understanding What is Agile Coaching? Agile coaching is an act of helping organizations and teams adopt and improve their…
