by Ravi Verma | Jul 12, 2017 | Agile, Empiricism, Evidence Based Management, Product Owner, Scaling, Scrum, Value
The role of the Scrum Product Owner is probably the most misunderstood of the three Scrum Roles. As I look back at the different incarnations and interpretations I have seen of Product Ownership, I thought it was time to articulate the different stances I thought an...
by Ravi Verma | Apr 20, 2017 | Agile, Empiricism, Evidence Based Management, Scaling, Scrum, Uncategorized, Value
True Story… Many times, clients ask Agile Coaches like me to come in and share our “expertise” with them. But sometimes they really don’t want our “Expertise”. What they really want is someone with lots of TLA’s to come and...
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...
by Ravi Verma | Nov 29, 2016 | Agile, Empiricism, Evidence Based Management, Scaling, Scrum, Uncategorized, Value, Value
EMBARRASSING CONFESSION OK, so this will be awkward, and maybe cringe-inducing post. But we are approaching the new year. Plenty of people might be making new year resolutions. Many will be around fitness. So everyone needs to read this. I was once really impressed by...
