tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81182253947628363012012-01-09T22:01:10.696+05:30Asheesh Mehdiratta's blog on the technology industry and agile thinking...Asheesh Mehdirattahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04016294535381331278noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8118225394762836301.post-9806511891022195452011-12-30T13:20:00.001+05:302011-12-31T10:39:54.485+05:30

The Scrum India Dec 2011 NCR meetup at Xebia, offered me a perfect opportunity to rant about my expectations from today's Product Managers in the agile world today, as we go about our daily (product development) chores. This post was takeoff from my earlier post sometime back on bringing the business dashboard closer to the workforce on the ground and linking the agile world with the overall

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As part of the Scrum Alliance, Agile Tour India, Pune conducted a track on Agile Enterprise and my session on "Balanced Scorecard for the Agile Enterprise" was selected. The session focused on how Balanced Scorecard has traditionally been used across multiple industries for managing the organization performance towards the achievement of it's strategic goals. This session introduced key

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Sharing my presentation at the Agile NCR 2011, talking about the 7 step framework for introducing bottoms up agility in your organization. Watch out for details in my next blog posts. How did you win your wars ? leave a comment...Asheesh Mehdiratta Agile NCR 2011View more presentations from mehdiraa.

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Delighted as I will be speaking in the Agile NCR 2011 conference, Delhi...you can catch my talk on 25th Feb 2011 (4:00PM)....http://agilencr.org/pages/agendaI will be speaking - 7 steps to winning Agile wars ...any thoughts on this? Shoot me an email and I will try my best to answer in my talk. wish me luck !

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Do you think that your sprint retrospective transitions the team to their cause ? or is it just another tribal ceremony?The authors of Tribal Leadership talk about people forming tribes, which range from stages 1 to stage 5 (most evolved at stage 5). The tribal leaders in Stage 4/5 perform regular "tribal maintaineance". But do you know that this tribal maintaineance ritual matches the sprint

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Agile 2010 dates are now announced by Agile Software Community of India (ASCI), happening in Mumbai(16/17th Jan) and Bengaluru(22/23rd Jan). Here are the links for Bengaluru and Mumbai registrations. I am registering my seat now....

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Agile teams generally do acceptance tests, unit tests with every sprint but what about usability tests ? The myriad test frameworks allow continuous feedback for the functionality or 'user acceptance' tests, but the user experience tests are sadly missing or delegated to the specialist designer.What has been your experience ? Can you build user experience (UEX) focus in your agile sprints from

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Can you deploy your software 50 times as day ? (yeah FIFTY) !! The folks at IMVU are doing it already..! But the more important question is if you can ripple this deployment model achievement into your overall product development strategy for achieving product differentiation in the marketplace?The naysayers will resist and say that the product strategy is long term buddy and who cares about

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Agile dashboards include Burn down charts (product\release\iteration), team velocity charts, backlog items (product\iteration) = Agile denominatorsBusiness dashboards have managers measuring the schedule, resources, quality.. ; CXO's measuring the ROI\ ROCE\... ; and the business analysts have the Quick Ratios \ quarterly stock price\ EPS expectations to ponder = Business (Economic)

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Captain Kirk, USS Enterprise, gets a "Godspeed" wish! Lucky chap ! you might say...but for us mortal souls "Good Speed" is what we simply crave for....but then what exactly is a Good Speed (velocity) for your agile mission ? do you know ?Following the typical sequence for agile projects, we all estimate the story points and get the total size estimate for the project. The team velocity (or the

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The Indian Political League (IPL) manifests itself every five years during election times in ways where every party, in truly democratic style, aims to GRAB power at any cost ! The statements and the U-Turns every passing day, are amazing to watch and maybe indicate the professionalism that a political career in India demands (maybe everywhere)?Do we treat these U-Turns as opportunistic or

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The shuffler struggles to strike a delicate balance while laying the stack of cards placing them one by one on top of each other to build a complete pyramid, ensuring that each card is aligned perfectly on the card and still be able to support the next layer to be built on the top. This sure is a Bottoms up approach !But how did you introduce agile development for your organization ? Bottoms up

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