If you are part of corporate life, you already know meetings are inseparable from corporate life. During a typical day, you attend both formal and informal meetings, and as per the HBR study, 71% of people said meetings are unproductive or inefficient. If you are working in an Agile world…

Is family meal a good replacement for Daily Scrum? — With the ubiquitous Agile, Scrum process adoption across technology organizations, daily scrum has become part of everyday life for software development teams, where teams meet at a fixed time every day. As per the Scrum guide, “The purpose of the Daily Scrum is to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal…

Measuring productivity is hard, and the traditional way of measuring productivity has a negative impact. Thank for the article—my thoughts on Developer productivity. https://link.medium.com/FzRdC5l6jjb

Are you a detective in constant search of evidence to create the right solutions? — One of the most talked-about fictional detectives, Sherlock Holmes, is famous for using logic and astute observation to solve cases. Holmes used the logical process known as abduction, which is based on inference from observation, where the conclusion is drawn may not always necessarily be true. The role of Product…

Is your team good at delivering quickly while focusing on value for the user? — “We delivered five new features for our product in last few quarters, and yet we see increased negative ratings and low retention,” Said a confused Product Manager in a leadership call to assess critical performance issues of a Product. “Our UX is not good; we have raised this during implementation…

Feedback is overrated in organizations for individual development; it is generally based on an individual judgment about the past. — We all rely on feedback for improvement. Whether it is a new product you launched, the new initiative you started, learning new skills from a coach, or a new idea you just came up with. The role of feedback in learning and improvement cannot be overemphasized. This feedback has become…

With Developers working in an Agile team, where collaboration and collective ownership are cultural traits, can we really measure developer productivity? — Measuring developer productivity is the elephant in the room for many managers responsible for performance reviews, mentor individuals, help them grow. Some managers come with their way of measuring individuals, while others try to keep it more based on their intuitions, usability, response time, etc. …

Many organizations following OKRs end up doing the things, which they were doing earlier. What causes no real change from OKRs, and how can they improve? — John Doerr popularized the concept of OKR, and with the success of his book “Measure What Matters,” more organizations and teams are using OKR as a tool for goal achievement and alignment across various functions. The definition of “OKRs” is “Objectives and Key Results.” It is a collaborative goal-setting tool…

While many Agile practitioners believe SAFe is not Agile, it is still a go-to choice for many big organizations. — There is a constant discussion among the Agile world about why SAFe is not agile, or it helps achieve nothing in terms of agility, value to the organization; however, the fact is that it is the most popular scaling agile framework, and even with so many critiques what is causing…