Hrishikesh Karekar

I have been a developer, a project manager, a delivery manager, an agile coach and led end to end agile transformations as an enterprise coach. These days, I am facilitating to design, build and animate the agile community at Capgemini India.

Lean not flat organizational structures are the way to self organization

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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

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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

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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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What Enterprises want when they bring an Agile Coach onboard

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More and more enterprises want to be #Agile. It is viewed as “the way” to deliver value to their customers. What they are actually looking for is something more fundamental – they want to do more for less. The goals are better profitability, sustaining the business, delighting customers and getting an edge over the competition.

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(Ruthless) Retrospectives for true business agility

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#Retrospectives are not just an “#Agile avatar” of the traditional phase end lessons learned processes. They are a core practice of agility. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Those that achieve true business agility and those that don’t. However they are not easy. Too often, especially in large enterprises and programs, they are

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Let’s FLIP it: Gamification to Drive Scrum Practice Adoption

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(Note: The article was first published on http://www.observationpointblog.com ) #Scrum is by far the most popular #agile methodology. But it requires a specific set of conditions and practices that can be hard to align in agile adoption on an enterprise level. When there are tens of teams involved in a transformation, each team with its

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Feature Fitment Factor – Knowing if your sprint length is optimum

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Organizations that have just embarked on the #Agile or rather specifically #Scrum journey often struggle to decide the right duration of the #sprint for them. Typically 1-4 weeks is the general recommendation. This decision is rather tricky as there are several factors at play. Two weeks sounds a great idea in terms of early feedback

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