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...

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...

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...

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...

If you plan a trip, you will think of where you would like to go (what is the destination) and how would you accomplish it. If you plan to renovate your house, you will have to decide what do you want to renovate and also how would you accomplish it. So, if its sprint planning (for next 2-3 weeks) then you need to decide "what" you will try to accomplish in that time and also "how" will you get there. In my opinion, both aspects are important (when you pan anything!). I have come across different teams who have approached planning differently. First type of a team is where the team membe...