Lessons from Bruce Lee for Agile practitioners
Lots to learn for agile practitioners from Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do philosophy as we operate in the VUCA world. Research.Absorb.Reject.Make your own !!
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Agile Leadership : Timeless wisdom from Lincoln
There are six main tenets of Lincoln’s leadership style that are very relevant for agile leaders; or rather all good leaders.
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Bridge Knowing-Doing Gap: Nudge to an Agile mindset
Nudges help people make better choices and influence intended behavior without limiting what they can do. Eventually this might lead to helping them cross the formidable ‘Knowing – Doing” chasm and nudge their way into an agile mindset
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Is Daily Scrum Meeting Optional?
Daily scrum does bring tremendous value in terms of alignment towards sprint goal There might only a handful of contexts where one may conclude against it.
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Agile is not the new normal, not yet…
The agile manifesto came out in 2001. That was about 18 years ago…What started as a handful of people uncovering better ways of developing software and helping others to do it has transformed into something far bigger. The #agile way of working has already been adopted by major software corporations around the world and making inroads already beyond […]
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Build better agile teams – Apply Non Violent Communication (NVC) principles
Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools, declares the #agile manifesto. as of its key values. One of the key differentiators for the agile approach, this is also one of the hardest to inplement in it’s truest sense. Decades of taylorism have hard wired us to rely on processes much more than people. Given all […]
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AI needs a Quantum leap
#Artificial Intelligence and #machine learning are poised to take us into a world beyond comprehension. We are standing at the crossroads where the next big technological leap might land us in the world of science fiction – star wars, star trek and the like. However they face a gigantic challenge. A recent study showed that 2.5 […]
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Lean not flat organizational structures are the way to self organization
The article was first published on linkedin – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lean-flat-organizational-structures-way-self-hrishikesh-karekar/ Also published on : https://www.bbntimes.com/en/technology/lean-organizational-structures-are-the-way-to-self-organization Agile is the new silver bullet, the savior for many a project in crisis. The Agile manifesto lays great emphasis on self organization when one of the principles states – The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams. Indeed, a motivated team […]
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The dawn of the thinking machines
Published on : https://www.bbntimes.com/en/technology/artificial-intelligence-the-dawn-of-the-thinking-machines The recent news from Facebook about shutting down its AI system that developed a language of its own opened up the debate again about the “existential threat” that AI brings to our world. A similar news came a few months ago from Google. Google AI translation tool invented its own internal language. For the layman […]
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Leading People through an Agile Transformation – Concrete steps you can take as a Leader
The article was first published on LinkedIn Organisational change has always been a challenging task. The process of starting something new often leads to uncertainty and insecurity. More so, when the end state after the change is not fully comprehended. This is often the case in large scale enterprise #agile transformations. Leading #people through such […]
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