Category: Enjoying Life and Work
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360/365Implementing Scrum in your Life – Becoming your Life’s Scrum Master
Scrum (for those who are not aware) is an iterative and incremental agile software development framework for managing product development. Borrowed from the game of Rugby it is a process where team members come together before restarting the game. There is way too much similarity between Life and work and I thought it would be…
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349/365 Transparency For Transformation
You have heard the word bombarded on the walls of conference rooms, in the corporate corridors and loud and clear through a mouth piece or headset. ‘Transparency’ has become both a request and an ask. Yet teams, organizations and individuals struggle with it. Whenever I say Transparency, I also know how many people take it.…
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304/365 Why I Like my job
Today is a Friday when I wrote this. I( was thinking about the Passion Profession post and video that I made two days back. There is more to it. The question was why I like my job. I think irrespective of what job it is, the criteria to like is pretty much the same. Two…
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279/365 Are you Safe at your workplace?
Psychological Safety is such an important thing in today’s professional world. If you want teams to perform to their best abilities. You want innovation and be a step ahead of the curve, you have to check the psychological safety in your work environment. Are people talking, raising their opinions, agreement and disagreements without fear. There…
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277/365 When Discipline Descends on You
Sometimes a discipline descends on you. It happens (for me at least) when I am not in control. It does not have to be for the entire day. May be a few hours a day. If I have a few hours that is not in my control and I just have to play to what…
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272/365 Finding Meaningful Work
I was reading an article on meaningful work and if I remember correctly I had also put my thoughts on in this blog. Well I don’t want to go back and see what I said back then. But there is another thought that comes to me now. This is also a question that came up…
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263/365 Reflect, Accept & Correct From professional life to Personal Life
As Human Beings one of our most treasured abilities is that we can (if we want) reflect on what we do and accept the outcome and correct what we feel is not right. But it is not a common act because Acceptance and Correction are not the favorite phenomena for most people. In business and at…
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260/365 People Management in a New Workplace
Haven’t you heard the saying “One does not choose one’s own parents”. I believe it is not just about Parents, many times we do not have a choice of our coworkers either. While with parents the lack of choice is not considered a burden and I am yet to find someone who wished they had…
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259/365 A Long Conversation in Person
One of the things I missed from the last two years is long conversations with others.. in person…. I happened to have one such conversation a few days back… Well I cannot say I have not had long conversations.. but in the office discussing a product being developed hearing the problem being defined and technical…
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256/365 Work From Home, Office or Hybrid
Yesterday someone asked a question…. What do I prefer… working from home, office or hybrid…. I answered that it was too early to decide… I started working from office only two weeks ago… And I like it… One main thing is I don’t have a long commute… I have been in a hybrid mode for…
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