MVP म्हणजे काय रे भाऊ?

Less is more? So MVP.... मध्यंतरी आमच्या घरी विशेष पाहुणे जेवायला येणार होते. म्हणून मग पुरण पोळीचा बेत करायचे ठरले. आता पाहुण्यांसाठी जो बेत केला जातो त्यात काही “must have” पदार्थ असतात. जसे कि – पुरण पोळी, तूप अथवा दुध, वरण, भात. काही “should have” पदार्थही असतात, जसे कि बटाट्याची भाजी, पापड (म्हणजे तेmust have नसते, पण नसले तर असायला पाहिजे असे वाटत राहते). आणि इतर अनेक पदार्थ हे नसले तरी चालणार असते, पण “पाहुण्यांना काय वाटेल?” ह्या भीती पोटी ते आपण करत बसतो. जसे कि – भजी, चटणी, कोशिंबीर, कटाची आमटी (एक निरर्थक...
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स्क्र्म मास्टर नक्की करतो काय रे भाऊ?

जसा जसा agile ला बाजारात भाव मिळत गेला तसा तसा एक “स्क्र्म मास्टर” नावाचा रोल चर्चेत आला. “हा माणूस नक्की करतो काय”? ह्याबद्दल बर्याच ठिकाणी गोंधळ होता आणि आजही असतो. ह्या रोले साठी बाजारात काही “फास्ट फूड” कॅटेगरीतली सर्टिफिकेटस पण आली आणि त्याने हा गोंधळ अजून वाढवला! जो तो उठसुठ “प्रमाणित स्क्र्म मास्टर” बनला. “servent leader”, “facilitator”, “empathy”, असली नवीन विशेषणे कानावर आदळून, “हे काही तरी वेगळे आहे?” असे जाणवून एक फुगा फुगवला गेला! पण साधारण आजही “management” कॅटेगरीला “servent का असेना पण ८-१० जणांमागे एक मुकादम [“व्हाईट कॉलर भाषेत” टीम लीड] तर लागतोच” हे पटायला फारसे अवघड गेले ना...
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Patterns of Human Behaviour (Manushya Vrutti)

Came across this explanation while reading a book today, very interesting... see if u also can relate to it... Who can think of other's needs before yours, gives first, not expecting any returns is Deva vrutti (E.g. i can think of Amte family, rare to find) Who seeks retrieval of what s/he thinks is stolen by others, so thinks that s/he is oppressed, is Asura vrutti (anybody who jobs after appraisals thinking injustice happened to them) Whose ambition is to grabs, takes something of others' without giving anything back, is Rakshasa vrutti (Chaara ghotala, 2G ghotala, etc) Who keeps...
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A different version of racism :-)

Having worked as a consultant for past 4+ years, I have almost always experienced a unique (kind of racist) behavior from my Indian colleagues. Every time I start agile coaching with a team, I have almost always observed some typical behaviors and reactions of managers, leads. Some of these unique reactions are - Here comes one more fellow to give us gyan on how to do projects J What do you know about our environment and our projects’ challenges? Do you think that we haven’t already tried all these suggestions? Our environment is different – these things won’t work Most of the ti...
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Can you relate to Chaturvarna system while working with agile?

Disclaimer: There is always a confusion between Varna (mind-set) referred to in Vedas and Jati (community) that shapes Indian society and it has always created much negativity. However, below write up has nothing to do with caste system. It is all about Varna (i.e. mind-set). If you want to know little bit more about 4 Varna then you may refer to brief explanation at end of this article. Sharing my experience: While working with various teams in various organizations, I came across variety of scrum’s implementations and I could not stop myself from relating what I observed to the c...
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2016 Retrospective

I was scribbling down some thoughts about last year....thought of sharing it... What went well Got to know some very good people in this industry – professional and knowledgeable Created a very good case study for scrum training, working out very well Identified some new songs, movie clips to be used during PMP sessions – working out well Explored, learnt something about Lean – need to dive more deep Wrote some good blogs – was satisfying Interacted with close to 700 different people – 175 for PMP, 360 for scrum, 110 for scrum coaching, around 50 for MSP Worked with 19 diffe...
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PMP (PMBOK) complements agile….What are you talking? You must be crazy!

I am working with an organization which is using scrum (one of the agile methods) for their product development. One day, I requested one of the managers there to create a “work breakdown structure” for a new project that was recently initiated in the organization. And the moment I did that, I heard an expected (but weird) question – “so are we going to stop agile?” :-) Somehow, I have come across this question several times, where I felt that people have (strongly) tagged PMP (or PMBOK) with waterfall approach! I think that this is really unfortunate! What is even more surprising and unfor...
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Critical path म्हणजे काय रे भाऊ?

परवा मी एका लग्नाला गेलो होतो. लग्न म्हणजे पण एक मोठे प्रोजेक्ट्च नाही का? तर ह्या प्रोजेक्ट चे एक “work package” होते “आवरून वेळेवर तयार होणे”. आणि ह्या “work package” च्या अनुषंगाने येणाऱ्या activities आणि त्यांचा sequence हा साधारण खाली दाखवल्या प्रमाणे होता. लग्न झालेल्या आणि पोरे-बाळे असणार्या सगळ्यांच्या activities आणि त्यांचा sequence साधारण असाच असेल ह्याची मला खात्री आहे :-)                 तर ह्या चित्रात दाखवल्या प्रमाणे, “तुमची अंघोळ”, “तुम्ही कपडे करून तयार होणे”, “मुलांना तयार करणे”, इत्यादी activities ह्या तु...
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Yesterday I witnessed a delay on critical path, causing schedule risk!

Yesterday I had to attend a family function, some close relative’s marriage. By the way, marriage is a BIG project, in fact a very complicated project with great deal of stakeholders’ expectations management involved! One of the work packages of this project was getting ready and attending the function. There was a schedule constraint that, we had to reach the venue before certain time. The actual marriage rituals were going to start at a specific time (hard deadline, can’t change) and we must reach before that. Now, this work package of "getting ready" has following activities, as shown...
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माझ्यासारखे confused इतर पण आहेत का?

असेच एका कुठल्याश्या रविवारी लक्ष्मी मित्तल ह्यांच्यावरचा एक लेख वाचला. असले लेख रविवारच्या सुट्टीच्या दिवशी वाचले कि आपण पण काहीतरी वेगळे करायला हवे, असे काही तास तरी वाटत राहते :-) सुट्टीच्या दिवशी दुसरे काही करण्यासारखे नसल्याने, वेगळे काही करावेसे वाटणे, ह्यात वेगळे काहीच नसावे कदाचित! माझ्या मते वयाची पस्तीशी उलटलेल्या, आणि पन्नाशीच्या जवळ अजून न पोहोचलेल्या, बऱ्याच जणांना "वेगळे काही तरी करायला हवे" चे हे असे झटके मधून मधून येत असतात! पण असे फक्त वाटत राहणे आणि तसे काही प्रत्यक्षात करणे ह्यात फार फरक असतो. सेकंड होमे घ्यायचे असणे, किंवा मुलांची लाखभर रुपये शाळेची फी किंवा नवीनच lau...
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