Visit Blog Home Product Lifecycle 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...
Choosing Right Pilot for Agile Implementation
Visit Blog Home Choosing Right Pilot for Agile Implementation 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...
Writing a Variable Scope Contract/SoW
Writing a Variable Scope Contract/SoW 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...
Adjusting Master Contracts during Agile Transformations
Visit Blog Home 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...
One-Team Culture – A first step to being Agile
Visit Blog Home 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...
Agile Transformation Challenges
Visit Blog Home 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...
Define Tangible Agile Transformation Items with concrete Business Value
Visit Blog Home 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...
Planning Agile Transformation Sprints
Visit Blog Home 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...
Running an Agile Transformation with an Improvement Backlog
Visit Blog Home 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...
Agile Transformation in An Agile Manner
Visit Blog Home 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...