by Ravi Verma | Jul 15, 2020 | Agile, Empiricism, Entrepreneurship, Evidence Based Management, Product Owner, Scaling, Scrum, Uncategorized, Value, Value
THE PRODUCT OWNER (PO) (This definition is based on the November 2017 version of the Scrum Guide, available at – https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html) The Product Owner is a tech-savvy entrepreneur who maximizes the value stakeholders get from the product....
by Ravi Verma | Oct 18, 2019 | Agile, Development Team, Empiricism, Evidence Based Management, Roles, Scaling, Scrum, Value
As a recovering manager I want to stop solving problems for teams So that I can enable self-organization… One of the biggest reasons I failed my first attempt at the Scrum.org PSM-1 assessment was that I had a habit of solving problems I had no business solving....
by Ravi Verma | Oct 17, 2019 | Agile, Definition of Done, Development Team, Empiricism, Evidence Based Management, Product Owner, Roles, Scaling, Scrum, Uncategorized, Value, Value
Over the past 10 years, I have had the privilege to guide Scrum adoption for organizations from 10 people to 10,000 people and have made some glorious, cringe-worthy mistakes that often wake me up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. As I look back at my...
by Ravi Verma | Jan 16, 2017 | Agile, Change Management, Empiricism, Entrepreneurship, Evidence Based Management, Organizational Development, Scaling, Scrum, Uncategorized, Value, Value
THE (MIXED) BLESSING OF NEXTGEN REWRITES About 10 years ago, I experienced the mixed blessing of being part of yet another nextgen rewrite project. I was guiding a team of about 25 really smart team members, part of a much larger team of about 150+ people. Our team...
by Ravi Verma | Jan 5, 2017 | Agile, Change Management, Empiricism, Evidence Based Management, Organizational Development, Scaling, Scrum, Uncategorized, Value, Value
IMAGINE Imagine you have just been asked to build an Agility Enablement Organization for your company. Sounds like fun, but there are some constraints you need to work within or around… There are 100+ teams with varying levels of interest in Agile You only have a...
by Ravi Verma | Jan 2, 2017 | Agile, Empiricism, Evidence Based Management, Scaling, Scrum, Uncategorized, Value, Value
NEW YEAR RESOLUTION So it’s a new year. New Year, new start, yadda yadda yadda… Maybe you are considering some New Year Resolutions so I wanted to invite you to take our 2017 waste-loss challenge by decreasing your Sabotagile Quotient. This challenge... 
