Executive Summary This white paper is about exploring the foundational “flashbacks” of prominent Agile frameworks—Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Software Development, and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The goal is to uncover their origins, who came up with the particular approach and how and most importantly the impact of these approaches on the ‘agile’…
“Yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas tat tad evetaro janaḥ sa yat pramāṇaṁ kurute lokas tad anuvartate” “Whatever leading persons act, people in general follow them. If the leading person says it is nice, then it is all right – the others also accept it.” – A quote from Bhagwad Gita We have…
“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…
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates Introduction Why Release Planning Matters You know that feeling when you are just waiting for something big to drop – a new app, a fresh update, maybe even a game, and then, it’s…
“Discipline is doing what needs to be done, even if you don’t want to do it.” – A quote I read on my school’s ‘Thought of the day’ board on my way to daily morning assembly. We live in this crazy world, obsessed with freedom, autonomy and the thrill of venturing into the unknown. We…
What is an Agile mindset? Why should organizations encourage an agile mindset? More importantly, how to cultivate an agile mindset? We will explore this and more in this short blog. Most people do what they have been doing for years without changing any pattern – why break something that works? They are resistant to new…
Introduction “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” – Vincent Van Gogh I never wondered what goes into building the great products that I used in my daily routine while growing up as it was all about going to shop with my father to buy the same canvas shoes which…
Introduction We have all been there. Staring at a backlog filled with cryptic phrases that vaguely resemble requirements. They lack clarity, are difficult to estimate and ultimately, lead to a product that misses the mark. I remember when a friend of mine gifted us a board game, my daughter and I were so excited to…
Introduction to Transformational Leadership Leadership is way more than just giving orders or pointing fingers. If you are doing it right, you are actually guiding people, genuinely inspiring them, and giving them the real power to hit some kind of shared, amazing goal. And among all the leadership styles out there, there’s one that just…
Roadmaps are evidence of strategy. Not a list of features.” – Steve Johnson A product roadmap is basically a simple plan that shows where you want to take that product over time. Think of it like a high-level travel plan for your product – it shows the main stops (big features or improvements) you want…
