Agile World

I had read Ricardo Semler's book, Maverick a few years back. Today I came across Semco's survival Manual on their site and is...

It is very important to identify the right person to drive Agile adoption in the organization rather than randomly choosing some senior pers...

If you are running an Agile project and looking at hiring a suitable candidate, here is an excellent article which describes the step by s...

Recently I was watching the web cast on Lean Concepts for IT Professionals by Durnall and Parkinson. They have provided a very good introdu...

A decade of experience while working with distributed development environment has taught me some lessons and techniques to effectively work ...

Recently completed 2 speaking events, one in Bangalore and the other in Hyderabad. The event was sponsored by ITGrids in alliance with Agil...

I have been observing an Agile adoption trend/pattern in offshore companies (read it as India). The offshore companies are mostly into softs...

Many thought leaders have recommended organizations to follow "team performance ratings" rather than "Individual performance...

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Metrics seems to be the part and parcel of any software development project. In typical waterfall development projects, different types o...

Project perfect team recently published my article on pros and cons of open office space on their blog. You can find the article here

Recently I witnessed a good deal of discussion about the "best" way to arrange seats in software companies to improve productivity...

Here are some tidbits "Kanban", the Japanese word translates to "signboard" Taiichi Ohno developed Kanban T...

Before I begin my Agile training programs, I provide an opportunity for the participants to share their understanding about Agile. Most com...

I am a big fan of Gerald Weinberg ,and recently in an interview on Citerus , he has made some encouraging remarks about Agile. Thought wou...

Decision Market a.k.a prediction Market  is one of the techniques being used by many universities, governments, research institutes, finanac...

Words like Incremental, Iterative are quite often used in an Agile environment. In most cases Incremental and Iterative are used interchange...

Nowadays a lot of companies/software developers wants to get Certified Scrum Master(CSM) certifications. I don't understand why they are...

Many a times Scrum meetings starts becoming boring and if you are one of them, who feel Scrum meetings look like micro management or merely ...

I have been reading the book World is flat , since the last few weeks. In this book Thomas L. Friedman , argues the importance of outsourcin...