Adjusting Master Contracts during Agile Transformations 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...
One-Team Culture – A first step to being Agile
One-Team Culture – A first step to being Agile 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...
Agile Transformation Challenges
Agile Transformation Challenges “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...
Define Tangible Agile Transformation Items with concrete Business Value
Define Tangible Agile Transformation Items with concrete Business Value 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...
Planning Agile Transformation Sprints
Planning Agile Transformation Sprints 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...
Running an Agile Transformation with an Improvement Backlog
Running an Agile Transformation with an Improvement Backlog In my experience, Agile Transformation can be run as any other Scrum implementation. Thus creating an Improvement Backlog which is an ordered list of everything that needs to be done during the transformation...
Agile Transformation in An Agile Manner
Agile Transformation in An Agile Manner A lot of organizations now a days have a plan to move to agile. For which they hire “consultants” , do a “analysis” and come up with a detailed, prescriptive plan that they intend to track meticulously to completion. This in...
Cucumber – Behavior Driven Development Tool for Automated Acceptance Testing
Cucumber – Behavior Driven Development Tool for Automated Acceptance Testing In DevOps, automation is achieved using different tools. The most important Phase which needs automation in DevOps is “Testing”. Today lets looks at few of the tools which aid us in...
What is Product Backlog and what does it contain?
What is Product Backlog and what does it contain? The requirements in Scrum are called Backlog. Backlog is everything that is yet to be done and not necessarily the activities that the team has fallen behind. The product backlog is an ordered list of requirements that...
Tracking and Communicating Progress
Tracking and Communicating Progress in Agile implementations Information radiators in Agile are meant to display information at a public place so that the information can be noticed by as many people as possible without making a conscious effort to do so. Very less...
