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Building a Data-Driven Future: Start with Your Culture
Even though organisations invest heavily in modern data platforms, it’s crucial they understand that their data culture is just as important for unearthing actionable insights that drive business success. In this blog post, I’ll explore how cultivating a positive and deliberate data culture around your people yields the highest return on investment for your data Continue reading
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De-stress your work-life and achieve more with this simple prioritisation technique
The Corona virus pandemic and the resulting lockdown(s) have made it difficult for most of us to deal with this ‘new normal’. The constant juggling that we find ourselves in while working from home, has created a never ending stress cycle, thus making most of us feeling overwhelmed and often clueless as to how to Continue reading
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Running successful meetings – Ideas for Agile Teams
Meetings can be a source of creativity and motivation, a time when team collaboration and leadership combine to create the space for achieving organisational goals. Maybe true in an ideal world – huh? Unfortunately, more often meetings are just an unproductive and inefficient waste of time. This article’s purpose is to present ideas that can Continue reading
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Servant leadership for the Scrum Masters
Organisations are often puzzled about needed capabilities in a Scrum Master role specially when that organisation is starting to transform their delivery capability and doesn’t have an existing mature internal agile capability. Out of many traits required from Scrum Master, one very important one is Servant Leadership. Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy in which Continue reading
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Three interesting Sessions from Agile India 2019 (Day 1: Agile Mindset)
Agile India 2019 is over and what a packed event it was, spreading over 7 days with four days for conference and the rest for various workshops. I liked the conference days as every day had a theme I.e. Agile Mindset (Day 1), Business Agility (Day 2), Design Innovation (Day 3) and Continuous Delivery and Continue reading
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Scale organisational collaboration (not the process) to deliver Customer Value
A latest survey from Project Management Institute about the state of project management has reported that agile ways of working and practices have become mainstream and about 71% of the organisations are using agile in some capacity.[1] Many organisations are trying to develop an agile capability and embed that into existing governance and capability mix. Continue reading
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Approaches in Motivating Software Development Teams
A lot of my clients are interested not only in Agile practices but also in building a high performance culture to drive engineering teams. A question that I often hear is about the motivation approaches that works with such teams. This blog is a summary of some of these conversations that I have with anyone Continue reading
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Organisational Agility & Project Portfolio Management
In last few years as I have taken more diverse roles in Agile Project Management, I have come across the challenge of managing project pipelines and developing road maps for Agile delivery teams. As the owner of project pipeline (or portfolio owner) my vision was to improve the end to end value stream, from the Continue reading
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Are Heroes Good for Organisational Agility?
More often I see job advertisements where recruiters are looking for a hero or super star employee for a specific job. In their excitement of reaching out to good candidates they emphasize the qualities like “Super Heroes”, “Specially Talented”, “Super Star” etc. While I doubt the effectiveness and reachability of this messaging (because most of Continue reading
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Innovation Fallacy #1 – We love new ideas and creativity, therefore we are innovative!
I often come across people where someone would say “we love new ideas and we have a true innovative culture”. I do not believe on this statement unless I see a clear evidence of this. Why? By nature, human beings have a conservative and conformity driven mindset. Try something different; next time try to stand rather Continue reading
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