Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. – Confucius The word ‘Agile’ got popular in business circles a few decades back but how could any business survive without being agile? The businesses have always faced the challenge of changing market dynamics, competition with peers, environmental consequences due to geo-political nature and what…
Introduction To Agile Strategies In the digital age organizations have to constantly adapt to a VUCA environment, stay ahead of their competition, implement Agile Transformation Strategies, know what their customer wants and deliver the right products faster. How do they do it consistently, successfully and in a scalable way? The solution lies in constant innovation…
Why Should Organizations Be Agile? The purpose of Agile is not to create beautiful egalitarian processes or a product with every possible feature or an organization where people are happy and close to Nirvana. All these can be/should be byproducts and not the core focus. Core is always aligned with the business objective – responding…
‘A checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps–the ones that even the highly skilled professional using them could miss’ – by Atul Gawande In the past two decades, ‘Agile’ has become the talk of the town. It might be the rarest of the rare trend…
SAFe, or Scaled Agile Framework, is a set of principles and practices for Lean-Agile development and software engineering. It provides a framework for coordinating and aligning the efforts of multiple Agile teams, and helps organizations to scale Agile development to meet the needs of large, complex software development projects. SAFe provides a structured approach to…
“A timebox event within Agile Release Train (ART) which delivers incremental value in the form of a working software” is how SAFe defines a Program Increment (PI), and an effective PI requires work to be planned meticulously, transparently, and proactively. This article is an attempt to pen down a few hygiene elements to bear in mind…
It won’t be an exaggeration to say that out of the millions of Agile practitioners, the majority is stuck at ‘doing agile’ while being unaware or worse ignoring the bigger picture. Why? A simple reason – When you start zooming in a lot, it is not easy to zoom out. People are stuck in tit-bit…
Agile training is a form of education and professional development intervention focused on the Agile methodology and its principles, practices, and tools. The goal of Agile training is to help individuals and organizations understand and effectively implement the Agile ways of working. There are many different types of Agile training programs available, ranging from introductory…
“Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.” – James W. Frick In our experience as an agile consulting company, one of the biggest bottlenecks in an organizations agile transformation journey is to bring agility at the layer where investments to future…
Introduction ‘Running fast in the wrong direction is worse than walking slowly in the right one.’ – something like this quoted by Simon Sinek on X Today’s business arena demands not just speed, but also strategic agility. The true meaning of agility is also about moving continuously towards the right direction which might have been…
