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(Ruthless) Retrospectives for true business agility

#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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Metrics – What’s measured improves, Choose Wisely

“What’s measured improves” ― Peter F. Drucker The discussion about metrics is not a discussion about what we want to measure. It’s a discussion of what we want to improve. Before a project or a program embarks on defining metrics, it must have a clear definition of what they want to improve. Metrics are a

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Cost of Delay – An Economic Model for Decision Making

If you are not moving at the speed of the marketplace you’re already dead – you just haven’t stopped breathing yet. ~ Jack Welsh We are prioritizing in a world where time is precious and resources are scarce. Economics is all about scarcity. We can turn to economics to help us quickly discover, nurture and speed

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Make Kanban Work – Limit WIP Don’t get stuck on Visualization.

Kanban Method as advocated by David Anderson lists the first foundational principle as “Start with what you do now” and the first core practice as “Visualize”. This essentially means all you need kick-start Kanban is to set up a Kanban board for your process – the way it works now. And then you gradually improve, one

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Variable scope – Fundamental premise of Agile Software delivery.

Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, there was a pizza shop “The Piazza”. It was a specialty pizza shop. Having been in operation for over 3 decades, they had perfected the art of making exquisite pizzas. Most days were busy with the hustle and bustle of customers from far and wide –

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WIP Limits – The Science of Getting Things Done

This blog post is is second part of the series :  Why it makes perfect sense for Narendra Modi to use Kanban. If you came to this page directly, recommended to read part 1 first. A survey done in 2003 on e-government initiatives in developing/transitional countries revealed that only 15 percent of e government projects can

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Agile Project Management in an eGovernance Project

Amazing case study of Agile Project Management in an eGovernance Project. The key success factors in this are similar to the case study from GE (http://hrishikeshkarekar.com/2014/04/making-refrigerator-lean-start-up-and-agile/) Fundamental changes are needed to bring in agility. Things need to be done differently. The big areas to focus and make changes in the GE pilot were Supplier relations,

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Making a Refrigerator with Lean Start up and Agile Principles

Interesting blog that describes how GE applied Lean Start-up practices and Agile principles to developing a refrigerator. They highlight three main areas that needed changes and focus – Supplier relations, Finance and Leadership roles and responsibilities. This was a pilot in GE Appliance, from which they benefited tremendously and are considering to expand this throughout

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