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Book Review: Scrum Insights for Practitioners by Hiren Doshi
The Scrum framework as described in Scrum Guide (available for free at ScrumGuides.org) by its creators Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland is apparently simple, lightweight and minimally prescriptive in terms of rules, people roles and artifacts. It is rather easy … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, Product Management, Project Management, Scrum, Software Development, Software Engineering
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Book Review: Scaling Up by Verne Harnish and the team at Gazelles
There are 3 main challenges in scaling up a business once you get past the start up stage: 1) Growing the capabilities of the leadership team 2) Installing a scalable infrastructure to manage the complexities that keep increasing with growth … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management, Leadership, Metrics, Operations, People, Planning
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Book Review: The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald G. Reinertsen
Traditional product development approach does not work well in a complex, uncertain and volatile business environment. The tendency to increase the efficiency of each step in the development process by working with big batch sizes of work items (specifications, design, … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Lean, Operations, Planning, Product Development, Project Management
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3 Pillars of a Retrospective
In my previous blog post, I made an appeal to treat retrospectives as sacrosanct and not to skip them. Here I will discuss the 3 Pillars of Retrospectives i.e. the critical success factors without which retrospectives will not be effective … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, People, Project Management, Retrospectives, Software Development
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Retrospectives are Sacrosanct ! Don’t Skip Them !
“Practice makes a man perfect“. “Persistence is the key to success“. “Through practice even an idiot can become wiser“. These are all great sayings ! Sadly they don’t hold good if you are practicing or persisting with a wrong thing. … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, Project Management, Retrospectives, Software Development, Software Engineering
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Book Review – When Teams Collide
International teams are now a reality in multinational organizations. In this book, Richard D. Lewis, an internationally known cross-cultural consultant and trainer provides guidelines on how to successfully assemble, manage and strengthen international teams. He discusses the following 11 skills … Continue reading
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Book Review – Disciplined Agile Delivery
Success of agile methods in small organizations with co-located teams is well-known. But scaling Agile to an enterprise level is a different ball game. It requires a more rigorous approach than many of the popular agile methodologies . The rigor … Continue reading
Book Review: Interpreting the CMMI – A Process Improvement Approach
Perhaps no other process improvement framework has ever been so misinterpreted and misused by the IT industry as CMMI. The original purpose of CMMI i.e. process improvement is largely forgotten and the focus of the CMMI initiatives in most of … Continue reading
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Tagged CMMI, Process Improvement, Quality Assessment, Software Development, Software Engineering
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Book Review: The Financial Times Guide to Business Networking
How to exploit the combined power of online and offline networking for business success is what this book is all about. It has four parts. Part 1 : The Joined Up Approach to Business Networking – what networking is and … Continue reading
Book Review: Top Business Psychology Models
Business psychology: Studies and theories which help us understand or explain human behavior, emotions and cognitions at work. Business psychology has linkages with other areas like human physiology, spirituality and philosophy which have implications on performance at work. In this … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Coaching, Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management, People, Psychology, Team Dynamics
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