A few weeks ago, I came across a blog post titled “Scrum Masters Are the Most Useless Role in Tech.” I left a long comment there which garnered some good response and I want to share the crux of my argument here as this topic always sparks strong reactions. Some genuinely feel the way the blog went, while some will strongly disagree. Having served as … Continue reading The Idea of a Scrum Master
Telling we don’t know how to do something is very important and it just helps us and the company we work for. It gets us the help we need to learn and do our job better. Now the question is does our company and our team and our manager give us that freedom to say so. If not we have a problem. I say this … Continue reading I don’t know how to do it
I am not sure, but I have a theory. But more than my theory this is a question that companies have to really dig into. Why do some Good people leave a company? I know before we talk about it, we need to probably define what ‘Good’ means. I am sure there are companies out there that think ‘Good’ means having to pay way less … Continue reading 348/365 Why do some Good People Leave a company?
If you are not aware… I have made my paid Agile Scrum course free on my YouTube Channel.. And so I thought I will write about how I became a Scrum Master. The course is 6 part and here is Part 1.. You can watch all of them on the Penpositive YouTube channel I wanted to always write about how I got here. I have … Continue reading 235/365 How I became a Scrum Master
Breaking big items into small chunks might be part of our DNA but yet we find it extremely difficult at times. If you are at the dinner table I am sure that is not a problem. But dinner table is not the only place where life asks you to break things down. It can be a very time consuming activity. The primary reason I guess … Continue reading 216/365 Breaking big items into small chunks
‘Thinking’ or may be the time to ‘THINK’ is getting scarce now. Are people stressed and overworked because they don’t have enough time to ‘THINK’? Our little handheld devices take such a lot of our time. Distractions, incomplete work and jumping from one priority to other, all leave people stressed and overworked. I am just putting the question out there for us to ‘THINK’. If … Continue reading 212/365 We all need that Thinking Time
How many of us start a day with the plan and goal to complete our work in 8 hours. Don’t you think that there is a higher chance that we will finish it on time than when we just get to work without that thought. This is a concept from agile and Scrum. If you are doing Scrum you know that you work on time … Continue reading 210/365 Do you Time box Your Day?
At work we all sit in meetings most of the days. We sit in both effective meetings and ineffective meetings. We sit in well planned and totally unplanned chaotic ones. We sit in meetings that have a clear outcome and we sit in those that just act as a primer for another longer one with more people which in turn acts as a primer for … Continue reading 208/365 How much does your meeting cost you
Processes are put in place so things could run smoothly and by running smoothly it also means that someone has a way to control and predict the outcome or delays. All said and done processes also have bottlenecks that make it difficult for some things to function smoothly. One would say that the process is broken, or that it is inefficient. While another thought would … Continue reading EP 244 (181/365) No Process should become a Red Tape
We will never be able to do everything we want….and I get that… I hope you do too… but the bigger problem is saying No to some of the things we want to do.. Remember we spoke about value trade-offs…. Even when we are able to find the value and do the trade off.. there is a point that we miss.. when we decide to … Continue reading 137/365 Saying No to some of the things we want to do
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