by Amit Kulkarni | Mar 22, 2020 | Agile Scrum
Product is something that satisfies a Business Need. Product delivers value to the stakeholders (internal or external). Product has a clear boundary, customers and achieves some measurable value. A tangible product is a physical object that can be perceived by touch...
by Amit Kulkarni | Mar 12, 2020 | Agile Scrum
Product Goal provides a high level view about the destiny of the product and defines the end goal for the product. It broadly answers the questions of Why are we doing it? – The reason why we are building What does it solve? – Need for the Product Who are...
by Amit Kulkarni | Mar 10, 2020 | Agile Scrum
Product lifecycle is a set of stages that a product generally goes through from its envisioning to the product being taken off from the market. Broadly the product lifecycle curve looks like this Development Stage This stage is generally before the launch of your...
by Snehamayee | Mar 1, 2020 | Agile Scrum, Agile Transformation
Many students ask me how to choose a pilot? To ensure success of your transformation, it is really important to choose a right pilot. Below I will give a few suggestions. These suggestions have worked for me in while choosing an Agile pilot. Select a “Visible but...
by Amit Kulkarni | Feb 27, 2020 | Agile Transformation
There are Two ways of looking at our work. The primary constraints of any project include Scope, Cost, Time and Quality. I have represented them in the following diagram as “The Traditional Way” and ” The New Way”. The Traditional way : This is...
by Amit Kulkarni | Feb 21, 2020 | Agile Scrum, Agile Transformation
I was part of the vendor team for a large Dutch bank where work was being done in the traditional framework, using multiple vendors. The financial industry had changed drastically from 2008 onward due to a series of events such as separation of banks, mergers of...
by Amit Kulkarni | Feb 17, 2020 | Agile Scrum, Agile Transformation
The customer-supplier relationship is a reality for suppliers based in countries such as India, China, or the Southeast Asian countries. I was part of the leadership team of an India-based supplier that brought about a transformational change in a large bank in the...
by Snehamayee | Feb 11, 2020 | Agile Scrum, Agile Transformation
“Change is difficult”, but “Change is inevitable”. And more importantly No Change is easy. Change is always a painful exercise. Agile Transformation touches the life of people. It makes them come out of their comfort zones. Agile Transformation therefore is pervasive...
by Snehamayee | Feb 3, 2020 | Agile Scrum, Agile Transformation
When you do transformation programs, most of you will hear these statement “we were delivering projects before, we will continue to deliver projects … how much difference a mere ‘way of work’ can bring?”“All this agile and stuff is just a new name for the...
by Snehamayee | Jan 24, 2020 | Agile Scrum, Agile Transformation
Issue with Big-Bang Agile Transformation Most Agile Transformations start off as bing-bang implementations spanning across multiple years. Most transformations result in a lot of heartburn and a loss-of-focus since no tangible result get achieved in a short term. Thus...