Servant Leadership Servant leadership is a philosophy and set of practices that enrich the lives of individuals, build better organizations and ultimately create a more just and caring world. A servant-leader focuses primarily on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong. Traditional leadership generally involves the accumulation and exercise […]
Read MoreWhat is a Persona? Personas are highly detailed fictional characters, representative of the majority of users and of other stakeholders who may not directly use the end product. Personas are created to identify the needs of the target user base. Creating specific Personas can help the team better understand users and their requirements and goals. […]
Read MoreIntegrating Scrum with Prince2 Organization I was working for a large bank in Europe where Prince2 was already being followed. It was working alright for all waterfall projects as well as a DSDM projects (which were sort of waterfalled agile implementations!). Bank decided to later on work on Scrum and effectively implement Agile in the […]
Read MoreAgile Synchronization across teams, geographies, methodologies When it comes to enterprise implementations, there would always be A variety of teams working in different countries Working on different functionalities Using different methodologies – a combination of Scrum, DSDM, Waterfall, Lean etc and many other variables Key lies in synchronization of deliveries while the deliveries do happen like […]
Read MoreScaling the Product Owner Role Large Scrum Project consists of many small teams working together. Of course, one Product Owner cannot be the Product Owner for all the teams. Also rarely will a single Product Owner have all the knowledge about all business functions to be implemented or changed. Generally, the following hierarchy is followed […]
Read MorePDCA circle Many small improvement projects, like Kaizen events and other level-ll initiatives, follow the Lean and Agile process improvement cycle – PDCA approach or Deming’s cycle. The PDCA abbreviation stands for plan-do-check-act and is also known as the Deming or Shewart circle. We will briefly review each of the four steps: Plan Within the […]
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