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Sprint Goal- Are you setting it right?

July 15, 2022

Do you think your team does a lot of context switching? Do you still find the dearth of collaboration among team members? In your scrum ceremonies, do you still hear more “I” s than “We” s? Is your team failing to meet their Team objectives frequently? Are your Team members still worried about their respective tasks only, based on their personal preference or assigned to them? Is your daily scrum just a status update meeting rather than an opportunity to discuss a common vision? These are some of the common problems that a Scrum team encounters. Mostly we interpret the reasons behind the above problems to be lack of coordination among the team members. But have you ever tried thinking for the reasons beyond the coordination issues in the team? Have you ever retrospected to understand if there would have been something in common for the team to work that would have solved the above problems. Yes, you were right. The team might not have an obvious reason to work

May 25, 2022

What happens to a Project Manager when an organization undergoes the Agile Transformation? What made me write this Blog? The motive to write this blog is my personal experience where i was asked to perform the role of a Project Manager with the hat of a Scrum Master. Hence thought of throwing some light on the misconception in the industry that, Project manager and Scrum Master roles are assumed to be the same with different artifacts or different language being used while they aren’t. There is an unfortunate trend to hire people who are “Project Managers/Scrum Masters” or to expect one person to play both roles. Trying to do these two jobs at the same time will be difficult and confusing or upsetting to your team members. Later in this article, we’d look at how a Project manager can transition into a Scrum Master whilst the company undergoes the agile transformation. What happens to a Project Manager when an organization undergoes the Agile Transformation? "&q

3 C's for a Successful Self Organized Team

May 15, 2022

Problem Dan who is the manager of a team is concerned about his Team's performance. He thinks that his team isn’t performing well and there was no coordination among the team members. Mostly team meetings ended abruptly due to arguments. He researched on the factors that generally make a self-organized team. They were mutually accountable with the sense of ownership, their skills were complementary, they had all the infrastructure they needed to work independently. Dan decided to invest in training, hoping it would help them learn to work together. Team was trained on conflict management skills, listening skills, and how to have crucial conversations. His hope was that with the right skills he’d begin to see healthy self-organizing behavior. But they still argued on the petty things and blamed each other for the failures and didn’t produce much of anything. Though the training was valuable that wasn’t what was needed. They needed clarity about their customer and their r

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