tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56047298518486912092024-03-14T00:03:52.131-07:00Sridhar Peddisetty's SpaceSharing knowledge on Enterprise Agile Transformation [Strategy, Continuous Delivery, Automation, Best Practices], Agile Methodologies [Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Scrumban, XP], DevOps, PMO, Leadership, Management, Security, Project Management Institute (PMI)'s credentials [Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP®), Program Management Professional (PgMP®), Project Management Professional (PMP®), Agile Certified Practioner (PMI-ACP)], Stanford Certified Project Manager (SCPM) & Travel TipsSridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-82084505779462946432017-02-07T12:04:00.001-08:002017-02-09T10:42:52.048-08:00Being Agile: Team Got To Know Its Limitations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>"A man's got to know his limitations”</i>, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a quote made immortal by Clint Eastwood in the 1973 movie Magnum Force. I am not a movie buff but do like to rewatch classics once in a while and the inspiration to write this blog came right after watching Clint deliver his famous one liner. While adopting Agile development practices, its often seen that Organizations have a great deal of passion and good intentions. But unfortunately the intent alone is not enough if the attempt involved either the adoption scope to be too large or at a pace too fast for the organization, whose culture is not ready. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For successful adoption of Agile across Organization, its important to start with one or two pilot teams. For the team to be successful in adopting Agile practices, its important to get to know its limitations. Intimately knowing and addressing team limits, a lot could be truly accomplished. Below are my tips in identifying team limitations and playing to their strength for successful adoption of 'Being Agile'. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><b>#1. Deep philosophical understanding of </b><b>Agile: </b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">In my earlier post </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agilist-needs-more-than-training-succeed-sridhar-peddisetty" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">An Agilist Needs More Than Training To Succeed</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">, I had shared that getting trained in Agile does not necessarily mean that we have started thinking ‘Agile’. After training, it is important to work in your Org towards bringing in changes including predictable delivery by taking small steps in developing an environment, which fosters a collaboration culture with a shared vision across the Org. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>#2. Get familiar with individual team skills</b><b>:</b> Agile encourages team to consist of self performing & cross functional team members. Its important to understand the skills of each team member including front end, back end and other needed skills in the sprint (or) project. While grooming or planning, its essential to identify and play to the strengths of individual team members. While finalizing the team, one needs to be very clear what the objectives are and what they need to deliver individually as a member and collectively as a team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>#4. Provide team the necessary tools:</b> Performance of any project team is only as successful as the weakest link in the team. So we need to constantly nurture the individual team members while providing the necessary tools to be productive. For instance, once we have identified the weakling, its necessary to plan the mitigation either by pair programming or mentoring by cross training or guiding. Keep in mind that a happy team would automatically take care of keeping your client(s) happy so its important for the team to be equipped with right & necessary tools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While the practitioners of Agile are still divided into teams that are highly productive ‘Being Agile' and teams that are not. In my experience, team is successful in adopting Agile when it understands well its limitations and plays to its strength within the known constraints while continuously striving to improve. Teams that usually fail in adopting Agile successfully or struggle in their adoption are the ones that are usually leaning towards why something will not work rather than working on finding solutions to the constraints. </span><br />
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-32698570934887029252016-12-19T12:44:00.001-08:002016-12-19T12:47:27.376-08:00Being Agile: Best Practices For A Retrospection<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Being Agile is not just about processes, tools, bunch of smart technical people coming together & figuring it out all by themselves on what business value to deliver. Being Agile is about aligning the core Agile principles with the Org strategic goals and then enforcing the following of those core principles in delivering business value in an iteratively incremental manner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">By definition, retrospection is the action of looking back on or reviewing past events or situations. In the context of Agile,</span> <span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">retrospective meetings are held at the end of an iteration or sprint. During the retrospective, the team reflects on what went well in the iteration or sprint and identifies lessons learned & actionable items for improvement moving forward.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">If you cannot measure, you cannot improve. Retrospection helps you provide a platform to measure your current status with the goal(s) and an opportunity to do course correction. In my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyones-perspective-key-retrospectives-sridhar-peddisetty" style="color: black; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Everyone's Perspective Is Key In Retrospectives</a>, I had shared why its very important for everyone’s inputs to be considered during the retrospection. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">For having a productive retrospection, my recommendation would be for retrospection meeting participants to come prepared with some specifics in terms of above components. Keeping above components in mind, team can be specific about what went well in sprint or project, things that can improve for next sprint or project. For instance, some discussion points could be around following </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Did we identify all the right skills needed? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Did we mentor the team members as required?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Did we follow RACI matrix as agreed upon?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Did we manage stakeholder's expectations as per Backlog/SOW?</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Did we standardize our meetings to measure progress & concerns? </span></li>
<li style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Did we practice continuous improvements? </span></li>
<li style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Did we address any redundant process(es) that can be discarded or improved upon? </span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Did we use coding best practices? </span></li>
<li style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Did we follow technology best practices?</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Did we use good DevOps, build, deployment & automation best practices?</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Did we make the best use of relevant tool for managing requirements & measuring progress?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Did we make the best use of relevant tool to efficiently measure quality of our code?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Did we make the best use of relevant tool to measure our testing to ensure quality alignment? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Gotham-Book;">Did we make the best use of relevant tool to provide communication transparency on status, quality, etc.?</span></li>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-31320535283184033472016-09-23T04:39:00.001-07:002016-09-23T04:39:38.352-07:00Being Agile: It’s A Matter Of Perspective<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Its been more than 15 years since</span> <a href="http://agilemanifesto.org/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Agile Manifesto</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> is formulated but still there are strong voices heard for and against adoption of Agile. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Its interesting to hear the arguments of why ‘Agile’ does not work and these arguments are not very different from when traditional SDLC & project management practices were employed. If you analyze</span> <a href="https://www.infoq.com/articles/standish-chaos-2015" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Standish Group 2015 Chaos Report</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">, its interesting to align some of the common concerns about Agile with what is shared in the report. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Larger the goals, larger the chances of its failure irrespective of how you execute your strategy. As I had shared in my previous post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/being-agile-identifying-right-opportunities-act-sridhar-peddisetty">Being Agile: Identifying Right Opportunities To Act</a>, one of the Agile principles is "If You Have to Fail, Fail Fast”. Whether we take the approach of Waterfall, Spiral, RUP or Agile SDLC methodology, success is more certain when we break our larger goal(s) into smaller milestones and frequently measure our execution results with the plan. According to</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">the report, 18% large scale projects are successful when adapting to Agile compared with Waterfall’s 3% success so notion of Agile not working for large projects is not necessarily a fact. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">There are few articles stating Agile does not work in places like Asia or Germany. Its the most generalized statement without acknowledging that we are more global than ever before and emotional maturity in an Organization is changing faster than ever before. Having lived and worked in countries including India, Japan, USA and Argentina, I have experienced various cultures and my learnings have been that its not as much about the culture of the native country as its about the culture of the Organization. In an earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/too-agile-governed-fear-change-sridhar-peddisetty">Be Too Agile To Be Governed By Fear Of Change</a>, I shared that Agile is all about adapting to change; it was built on the foundational principle that business drivers will change and the culture of Organization must be ready to adapt for it to be successful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #1d2626;">Agile is more about being focused on delivering value and ability to respond to changes. While practicing the principles of Agile, it does feel that we are improving productivity but thats a result of applying the right principles. Motivation of adopting to Agile with the expectation that more can be expected to get delivered from the same team, is not the right thought process. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">In my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agilist-needs-more-than-training-succeed-sridhar-peddisetty" rev="en_rl_minimal">An Agilist Needs More Than Training To Succeed</a>, I shared that implementing Agile in any Organization requires more than just knowing the terms or ceremonies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Its not as much about whether team is co-located or not but its more about how much the project team is involved in</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">decision-making and information-gathering process. A remote team can be as successful provided the team is actively involved enough with more robust communication channel established. Communication channel is key, which would include transparent</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">user feedback, requirements review, R &D effort, prototyping and other consensus-building tools. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">In one of my previous post</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyones-perspective-key-retrospectives-sridhar-peddisetty" rev="en_rl_minimal" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Everyone's Perspective Is Key In Retrospectives</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">, I shared that people with a different perspective can come up with some incredible ideas and its about the right feedback channels in place whether with resect to co-located or remote teams. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">No team member comes to work to do a bad job and its usually the</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">culture of an Organization or project team that usually fails performers. So it does not matter whether you are employing Agile or not, performance of project team is dependent on collective success more than individual heroics. Agile encourages cross functional teams to bring down silos and when the silos are rid of, collective performance improves as there is better sense of common goal(s). In my previous post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-tips-strategizing-your-key-project-resources-sridhar-peddisetty">5 Tips on Strategizing Your Key Project Resources</a>, I shared 5 tips on how to strategize your key project resources. </span>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-27516117251735826022016-07-16T17:01:00.000-07:002016-09-23T04:30:00.076-07:00Being Agile: Identifying Right Opportunities To Act<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><i>A police officer found a perfect hiding place for watching for speeding motorists. One day, the officer was amazed when everyone was under the speed limit, so he investigated and found the problem. A 10 years old boy was standing on the side of the road with a huge hand painted sign which said “Radar Trap Ahead.” A little more investigative work led the officer to the boy’s accomplice: another boy about 100 yards beyond the radar trap with a sign reading “TIPS” and a bucket at his feet full of change.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">All problems are opportunities in disguise. Having said that, not all problems are well understood and therefore not all right opportunities are identified to act upon. One of the main incentives seen of Agile adoption across Organizations is in i</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">dentifying & acting upon the opportunities in a disruptive & fast changing new World. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Below are few tips in identifying the right opportunities to act upon and successfully delivering the results using the Agile philosophy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Define clearly problem statement(s) mapped with customer(s) and what matters to them the most. This can be accomplished by</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">engaging, observing and working closely with your key customers in</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">identifying the opportunities with their changing demands. It seems very obvious but i</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">f the upfront effort is not put in defining customer needs and if they are not aligned on the key problem statements, which needs to be solved, there will be an immense waste of time,</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">effort and Organization resources. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">While identifying the problem statements, its important to clearly define the criteria for success. Plan to break down the success into a journey and not necessarily a destination. This should be achieved by identifying the milestones and iterating through the milestones in achieving the goals. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">In my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/too-agile-governed-fear-change-sridhar-peddisetty">Be Too Agile To Be Governed By Fear Of Change</a>, I had shared how </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Design your Organization strategy in i</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">dentifying and defining Internal processes, tools & technologies, which creates an environment that maximizes learning to manage risks. Its important to anticipate changes, which may affect achieving your goals but with right environment, problems can be converted into opportunities. Encourage e</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2626; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">xperimenting and then reinforcing & building on what works. Enlist and inspire your Org. around a compelling purpose and grant Project team(s) the autonomy and resources to continuously adapt and adjust course. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Its important to focus on developing a minimum viable product (MVP) for early validation of the product. Formulate the philosophy of starting small, thinking big and scaling fast. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">In my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/minimum-marketable-features-agile-essential-sridhar-peddisetty">Minimum Marketable Features: An Agile Essential</a>, I had shared how the product innovation is tied to change and often the need for change appears midstream in a project so decomposing the requirements into Minimum Marketable Features (MMF) is key for successful execution of solutions for right opportunities </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">In the fast paced changing trends, ideas for product innovation needs constant nourishing. For the success of pursuing right opportunities, i</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">ts important to g</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">enerate alternatives and make fast, fact-based decisions about which to pursue. So if you have to fail, fail fast. Iterate to b</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2626; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">uild new capabilities, shed what doesn't fit and take the first steps in a new direction as needed. </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">In my earlier post </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/every-failed-project-has-success-story-tell-sridhar-peddisetty">Every (Failed) Project Has ‘Success' Story To Tell</a>, I had shared how its</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">important to identify & share the ‘success’ value of a project even if it failed to meet its main strategic goals.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">In the past, Organizations very diligently used to spend quality time in formulating a strategy and then sticking with it through the thick & thin. Today we are in <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-what-it-means-and-how-to-respond/">Fourth Industrial Revolution</a> in which we are talking about Cyber-Physical systems and in these interesting times, Organizations rapidly </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">surge ahead, rapidly fall behind, or even rapidly disappear. So in these interesting times for an Organization to survive, it needs to</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">continuously evolve, change and stay a step ahead of its competition. And for that survival, Organizations need to be in an advantageous position of identifying the right opportunities to act upon. </span>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-44506060596160194812016-05-03T04:48:00.000-07:002016-09-23T04:30:21.285-07:00Being Agile: Applying Common Sense With An Uncommon Level Of Discipline<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><a href="http://sridharpeddisetty.blogspot.com.ar/search/label/Agile">Agile</a> is applying common sense with an uncommon level of discipline. Its a journey of continuous improvements with the openness in providing an environment in which one can learn, unlearn and relearn. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">While applying Agile philosophy in delivering services, prepare for a marathon and not just a sprint. Its important to ensure clarity about the end objectives and lead the Agile team to show great commitment for the same. Both Pigs (those committed) & Chickens (those involved) should base their decisions on a long term strategic objectives instead of always just tunnel focussed on sprint goals. Agile philosophy comes good when it is motivated by authority while fostering an environment of collaboration, which is constructive, open & respectful. </span></div>
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Authentic communication is key for creating an environment, which allows to bring impediments to the surface by having more engaged employees. It allows to create a culture in which team can afford to stop to fix the problems and get the quality right, the first time itself. In my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/looking-impediment-from-value-perspective-sridhar-peddisetty">Looking At An Impediment From A Value Perspective</a>, I had shared how when faced with an impediment, one can enlarge the vision of looking at the impediment from the perspective of delivering value. </div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Purpose is more important than need. </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">In the chase between lion and deer, many times deer wins. One reason could be because lion runs for food, while deer runs for life. While practicing Agile, its important to practice with an </span>understanding<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"> of the purpose of outcome or output in context of solving business problem. Most of the Agile </span>practitioners do not use governance well enough for monitoring and controlling the project. </div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Discipline is the deciding factor to ensure transparency and accountability is promoted through Agile </span>philosophy. In my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agilist-needs-more-than-training-succeed-sridhar-peddisetty">An Agilist Needs More Than Training To Succeed</a>, I had shared that getting trained in Agile does not necessarily mean that we have started thinking ‘Agile’. After training, work in your Org towards bringing in changes including predictable delivery by taking small steps in developing an environment, which fosters a collaboration culture with a shared vision across the Org. This change would require an uncommon level of discipline. </div>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-48225964681327841232016-04-21T06:56:00.000-07:002016-09-23T04:30:46.815-07:00Silence The Mind To Think Clearly & Deliver Results<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Once there was a farmer who discovered that he had </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">lost his watch in the farm. It was not an ordinary watch </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">because it had </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">sentimental value for him. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">After searching the hay for a long while, he gave up </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">and sought help of a group of children playing outside the barn. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">He promised that the person who finds it would </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">be rewarded. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn, went </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">through and around the hay but still could not find the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">watch. Just when the farmer was about to give up </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">looking for his watch, a little boy went up to him and </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">asked to be given another chance.The farmer looked </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">at him and thought, “Why not? After all this kid looks </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">sincere enough.” </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">So the farmer sent the little boy back in the barn. After </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">a while the little boy came out with the watch in his </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">hand. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The farmer was happy and surprised and so he asked </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The boy replied, “I did nothing but sit on the ground </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">and listen. In the silence, I heard the ticking of the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">watch and just looked for it in that direction.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">A peaceful mind can think better than a w</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">orked up mind. Using the metaphor, a focused project team more often than not, delivers a project successfully. Project team must remain f</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">ocused on managing value based project goals and stakeholders instead of simply concentrating on budget and scheduling. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Below 5 tips can be used for a project team to remain focused </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><b>#1. Be clear on the project value</b>: Project delivery is not just about achieving agreed scope, schedule or cost but its about delivering value. Its often seen that project team while remaining focused on current work tasks sometimes remain oblivious of the value project is going to achieve at the end. In most cases, statement of work (sow) or proposal is authored by individual(s) who would likely not be responsible for actual execution of the project. So its important for the project team to be always aligned with what would be the end value of project. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Project team needs to have a complete ‘buy-in’ into the value for them to appreciate their current work tasks. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">#2. </span></b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><b>Break plan into achievable milestones</b>: We all understand that for every journey we embark, milestones helps us remain focused. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Milestones are the small steps, which leads project team to the ultimate project goal whether it be developing of new product or service. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Measurable milestones help the project team remain focused and celebrate their achievements along the journey, which goes a long way for a motivated team. Milestones also help team in executing, checking, planning and acting while keeping tab on quality to ensure alignment with the overall project goal. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">#3. Prioritize</span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><b>impediments mapped with value</b>: In my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/looking-impediment-from-value-perspective-sridhar-peddisetty">Looking At An Impediment From A Value Perspective</a>, I had shared how when faced with an impediment, enlarge your vision of looking at the impediment from the perspective of delivering value. Matured project teams view the impediments as tasks, which needs to be completed for respective user stories and the tasks could be updated and prioritized for the value. As a Scrum Master or Project Manager, one needs to know how things get done in the organisation and who to speak to when faced with an </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">impediment. </span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">#4.</span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><b>Separate people from the problem</b>: It is very easy to get overwhelmed with frequent pressures of delivering value and thats when things can get defensive for the team. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">In my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-already-have-go-yes-sridhar-peddisetty">You Already Have ‘NO', Go For ‘YES’</a>, I had shared how its important to keep emotions under check while delivering and always keeping in</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">mind to respond and not to react.’My side of the boat is not leaking’ attitude does not help so its important to separate people from the problem and be rational in identifying solutions for the impediments or dependencies. </span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">#5. </span></b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><b>Look for continuous improvements</b>: In my earlier post</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/value-stream-mapping-process-improvement-tool-sridhar-peddisetty" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Value Stream Mapping As A Process Improvement Tool</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">, I had shared how "Value Stream Mapping” can be applied as a tool for identifying inefficiencies in the processes. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyones-perspective-key-retrospectives-sridhar-peddisetty">Retrospections</a> are also key in identifying opportunities for continuous improvements. Note that singular way of doing retrospections does not necessarily fit culture of all organizations so its very important to c</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">ustomize how the feedback is taken and loop for the continuous improvement is applied.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Similar to how important it is to allow yourself a few minutes of silence to think sharply, project team needs to be focused for successful delivery of project value. </span></div>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-59012731975714741212016-03-20T05:55:00.001-07:002016-09-23T04:30:58.756-07:00Be Too Agile To Be Governed By Fear Of Change<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Agile is all about adapting to change; it was built on the foundational principle that business drivers will change and the project teams must be ready to adapt. </span></div>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-76576632444921950002016-02-20T06:55:00.000-08:002016-09-23T04:33:45.606-07:00How Osmotic Communication Works For NearShore Team<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Osmotic Communication is a term coined by <a href="http://alistair.cockburn.us/Osmotic+communication" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Alistair Cockburn</a> and the definition is: "Osmotic communication means that information flows into the background hearing of members of the team, so that they pick up relevant information as though by osmosis. This is normally accomplished by seating them in the same room. Then, when one person asks a question, others in the room can either tune in or tune out, contributing to the discussion or continuing with their work"</div>
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A NearShore team provides services to the client from a country, which is having proximity in terms of time zone and geographic location to client's country. Its a virtual team providing quality services to the client by overlapping for more time with the client by working in similar time zone, collaborating in realtime. </div>
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In my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/active-listening-key-successful-delivery-sridhar-peddisetty" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Active Listening Is Key For A Successful Delivery</a>, I had shared how in <a href="http://sridharpeddisetty.blogspot.com.ar/search/label/Agile" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Agile</a>, requirements and solutions evolve through communication and collaboration between self-organizing and cross-functional teams. Also in another post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyones-perspective-key-retrospectives-sridhar-peddisetty" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Everyone's Perspective Is Key In Retrospectives</a>, I had shared how the best teamwork comes from the team members who are working independently but toward one goal in unison and working in an environment where everyone’s perspective is encouraged, heard and respected.</div>
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Looking at the above illustration, its understandable that NearShore team cannot have the benefits of a face-face white boarding or in person conversations, but now with robust communication mediums including tools available, the communication gaps are shortened. Below are examples of few collaboration tools, which bridges the communication gaps working with virtual teams. </div>
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Using the advantages of NearShore time zone proximity, virtual team works realtime with onsite team and using collaboration tools like Skype for communication. For instance, group chats in Skype provides the perfect opportunity for the onsite teams and virtual teams to have a real time discussion and Osmotic communication is possible with the inputs shared by random team members instead of relying on 1:1 communication. It does not work in all situations but group chats go a long way in facilitating Osmotic communication in which a Scrum Master or a Product Owner operating from onsite could be seeking an answer from a remote developer but the remote QA member could chip in, if the person has same or better understanding. In another example, say a remote developer has a question on specific feature and posts the question to PO or stakeholder in group chat. Response of which could not only benefit the developer but also the remote QA, who in turn use the information in creating more specific test scenarios or automation scripts. Another major advantage of tool group chat is archiving of the communication for future reference, which is something that is not possible for a collocated team when having in person communication instead. </div>
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Osmotic communication keeps the cost of communications low while keeping the feedback rate high. This in turn, helps keep the overall cost of quality low as while working with NearShore team, its evident for the client that the requirements are disseminated faster and errors are corrected quickly. With strong delivery management best practices, frequent face time with client, NearShore virtual teams can take the advantages of Osmotic communication. </div>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-68325144336462076972016-02-14T06:16:00.000-08:002016-09-23T04:31:14.637-07:00What Is The 'Shark' In Your Fish Tank Today?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Many of us are living in a pond, which is making us most of the time, tired and dull. We basically are in need of a ‘shark', which is the new challenge that is necessary to keep us alive and kicking. In my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-tips-you-run-faster-than-somebody-today-sridhar-peddisetty" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">5 Tips For You To Run Faster Than Somebody Today</a>, I had shared how important it is to not only keep pace with current disruptive phase but to run faster with combination of your experience and knowledge.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />As shared in the post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/only-you-knew-how-much-actually-know-sridhar-peddisetty" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Only If You Knew How Much You Actually Know</a>, mantra for your success is your ability to understand the potential of the wisdom you have gained by correlating the knowledge gained in all your experience and using that wisdom to come out of your comfort zone and challenge the status quo.</div>
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To summarize, discover your shark and put it in your fish tank today to keep you alive, energized and fresh. As I had shared in the post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-positive-attitude-defines-successful-career-sridhar-peddisetty" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Positive Attitude Defines Your Successful Career</a>, we mostly underestimate the power of choice we make everyday and its worth reminding ourselves so often that its our positive attitude towards every aspect of life, which is what makes it a successful journey.</div>
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PS: Above was a WhatsApp forward so source is unknown but the message is worth sharing.</div>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-23530874942536231152016-02-06T15:42:00.000-08:002016-09-23T04:32:59.476-07:00An Agilist Needs More Than Training To Succeed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 32px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The most essential part of Agile transformation besides the Org. change champion, is proper training and in this post the intent is not to undermine the importance of training. Agile based trainings or certifications provide you possibly the</span> knowledge about Agile but not necessarily the wisdom needed to apply it successfully. <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Implementing Agile in any Organization requires more than just knowing the terms or ceremonies. It requires changing the mindset of people and working on making changes to the legacy processes and tools.</span><br />
<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In my experience, most of the trainings do not cover on what exactly Agile Manifesto meant by uncovering better ways of developing software. So here is my attempt of dissecting what is included in the Manifesto. </span></div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Individuals and interactions over processes and tools</strong> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- You need to develop a self performing team that owns collective responsibility but then for them to be successful, communication has to be transparent. You cannot be a ‘self performing’ team without bringing in the transparency using processes and tools. Scrum ceremonies (Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospection) provides you the discipline to be transparent but we need to ensure that the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">transparency in communication & collective responsibility is flowing across the Organization</span>. </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trust-your-team-make-sure-verify-sridhar-peddisetty" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Trust your Team But Make Sure to Verify</a>, I had shared that trusting your self performing team is important but its essential to verify that team is performing to its optimal level as a unit and not showing just individual brilliances, which can be counter productive for the end results.</span></li>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Working software over comprehensive documentation</strong> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- In order to develop a ‘working software’, project team and stakeholders should have a<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">shared understanding</span> of the project objectives or goals. We do not need to spend a lot of effort to create an accurate or comprehensive project charter but what we need is a good understanding of the vision, which is shared. Agile based SDLC of building potentially shippable products incrementally in short periods of time is one of the most tangible changes and benefits, which an Agile process provides. But again, its important to remain focused on the shared vision. Have enough documentation to serve the architecture, design, delivery, user acceptance and deployment of a working product in short iterative/incremental cycles. </span></li>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-10550650792175492282016-01-27T11:55:00.000-08:002016-01-27T11:56:15.755-08:00Looking At An Impediment From A Value Perspective<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><i>The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then asked him to drink it. "How does it taste?" the Master asked. "Awful," spat the apprentice. The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and when the apprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake, the old man said, "Now drink from the lake." As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the Master asked, "How does it taste?" "Good!" remarked the apprentice. "Do you taste the salt?" asked the Master. "No," said the young man. The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said, "The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount we taste the 'pain' depends on the container we put it into. </i><i>So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things..... Stop being a glass. Become a lake!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">By definition an impediment is a hindrance or obstruction in doing something. From an Agile perspective, an impediment is anything that keeps a team from being productive or reduces the progress of a well functioning team to achieve its goals. Some root causes of an impediment include</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">More often, an Agile team spends a lot of time in trying to categorize the impediment, be it trying to classify it as a feature, epic, user story, user task, bug or technical debt. Not undermining the importance of classifying an impediment but while looking at an impediment, its important to view the impediment in the context of delivering value rather than spending too much of an effort in categorizing it. Just to reiterate, categorization of an impediment sometimes helps to discover new impediments so its important but remember that it is in the solutions to those impediments where you find innovative ideas for your team to provide more value. In other words, remind yourself that impediments could be viewed as the tasks that need to be completed for user stories and then the tasks could be prioritized for the value. If needed, impediments can be managed in an impediment register where they can be prioritized as needed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">To summarize, focus more effort on solutions rather than categorization of impediments. So when faced with an impediment, enlarge your vision of looking at the impediment from the perspective of delivering value. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>“If you can’t out-experiment and beat your competitors in time to market and agility, you are sunk. Features are always a gamble. If you’re lucky, ten percent will get the desired benefits. So the faster you can get those features to market and test them, the better off you’ll be. Incidentally, you also pay back the business faster for the use of capital, which means the business starts making money faster, too.” </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">It is no longer enough for organizations to merely build and release a better product to stay ahead of competition but in today’s disruptive era, the need of the hour is to build and ship faster than everyone else. In order to meet the demands of time to market features, organizations have realized the necessity to be Agile and are having a paradigm shift in the way they build and ship software. Agile SDLC with continuous integration and rapid deployment have now become a de-facto standard. In my earlier post <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/kanban-devops-forming-perfect-alliance-sridhar-peddisetty">Kanban & DevOps - Forming A Perfect Alliance</a>, I had shared how Kanban <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 200; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">and DevOps combine together to help bring down the silos between Engineering and Operations teams. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Former Cisco CEO, John Chambers in his <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chambers-40-of-companies-are-dying-2015-6">last keynote</a> strongly put it forward that 1/3rd of today’s businesses would not survive next 10 years. Startup companies are already disrupting long established business models and they are succeeding mainly because of their ability to faster to market services. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">DevOps formulates collaboration of Operations and Engineering teams to achieve continuous delivery by participating together in the entire service delivery lifecycle. In my earlier post <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/devops-need-collaboration-succeed-practice-sridhar-peddisetty">DevOps Need Collaboration To Succeed As A Practice</a>, I had shared how by adapting to the culture of DevOps, an organization is not only focusing on agility but also on reliability by eliminating waste, identifying repeatable steps and automating those steps. DevOps is not just about technology disruption but is about transformative Organization and its ability to deliver value to the end consumer. Technology has become core for most businesses and is now an essential for their survival in a highly competitive space. Large enterprises have to be more nimble and the need of the hour is to move away from their large & complex interrelated legacy systems to a more Agile based environment with DevOps fueling the collaboration delivery setup. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Early adopters of DevOps have seen a significant increase in their revenue, faster time-to-market and improved customer experience with their success depending on their ability to deliver a continuous flow of value from APIs, new mobile apps and software innovations.</span></div>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-83621586050255334662016-01-02T17:12:00.000-08:002016-01-02T17:15:37.274-08:00 Lake Argentino Day Cruise, Argentina<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Below snaps are of day cruise in Lake Argentino, visiting various glaciers and viewing some spectacular ice bergs. </span><br />
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-27269563407247047852016-01-02T16:35:00.000-08:002016-01-02T16:35:21.674-08:00Ushuaia, Argentina<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Below snaps are of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushuaia">Ushuaia</a> in </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://sridharpeddisetty.blogspot.com.ar/search/label/Argentina">Argentina</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, which is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushuaia">southern most city of the world</a>. </span><br />
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-56346298638906531722016-01-02T15:15:00.000-08:002016-01-02T15:15:10.218-08:00El Calafate, Argentina<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-56057740915017812542016-01-02T14:14:00.000-08:002016-01-02T14:14:26.411-08:00Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 12.6px;">#SridharPeddisetty, #Argentina, #Calafate, #</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 12.6px;">PeritoMoreno,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 12.6px;"> #Glacier, #GlacierNationalPark, #Travel, #PlacesToVisit, #PointsofInterest</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Below snaps are of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perito_Moreno_Glacier">Perito Moreno Glacier</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perito_Moreno_Glacier">Los Glaciares National Park</a>, <a href="http://sridharpeddisetty.blogspot.com.ar/search/label/Argentina">Argentina</a>. </span><br />
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-61112844467762380852015-12-07T12:26:00.000-08:002016-01-24T05:51:06.764-08:00You Already Have ‘NO', Go For ‘YES'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">"You already have NO, go for YES!" is possibly the best advise shared by my colleague to sum up a hectic 10 days PreSales trip. In the last ten days, we travelled extensively across North America meeting with various clients, which worked out to be an enriching experience for both of us. Coming from a delivery background, this PreSales trip was a learning experience in many ways for me. More often than not, when you are selling your services, its the preconceived perception that is normally challenging to change. By definition, perception is the way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">So when my wise colleague shared with me the wisdom he got from his mother, it truly reflected the challenge we mostly overcome during our PreSales meetings. The challenge of going for ‘Yes’ when we already have a ‘No’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In my earlier blog posts, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-tips-delivering-quality-services-your-client-sridhar-peddisetty">5 Tips Delivering Quality Services To Your Client</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/7-tips-having-good-times-client-relationship-sridhar-peddisetty">7 Tips Having Good Times In A Client Relationship</a>, I had shared tips on maintaining robust client relationships and how to ensure providing quality services to your client. This post is more applicable for PreSales phase, which precedes before starting work with a new client or on a new project. In the book "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Yes-Negotiating-Agreement-Without/dp/0143118757">Getting to Yes, Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In</a>", based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, authors Roger Fisher and William Ury outline four parameters for principled negotiation:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">All of above four parameters are applicable when transforming the perception of people into a positive outlook. Below I am sharing five tips on how you can go for ‘Yes’ when you have already have a ‘No’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">To summarize, going after ‘Yes’ is more about knowing what you want, going after it and in the process respecting the person on other end of the deal. Go after ‘Yes’ to build long lasting relationships rather than burning bridges on your way out of the meeting room.</span></div>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-62500891381350792132015-12-02T14:57:00.000-08:002015-12-02T14:57:39.852-08:00Every (Failed) Project Has ‘Success' Story To Tell<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train’s window shouted…<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“Dad, look the trees are going behind!”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior with pity,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />suddenly he again exclaimed…<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“Dad, look the clouds are running with us!”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The couple couldn’t resist and said to the old man…<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“Why don’t you take your son to a good doctor?”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The old man smiled and said…<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“I did and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his eyes today.</i></span></div>
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We should not judge too soon before knowing all facts as at times the truth might surprise you. Every single person on the planet is unique and has a story to share. Similarly, every project is unique and has a ‘success’ story to tell even if it failed to meet its objectives in the eyes of stakeholders. By definition, project is a temporary unique endeavor having start-end timelines with a defined scope & resources with planned set of interrelated tasks executed to accomplish goal(s). </div>
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There are many means to measure the success and failure of a project but there is no strict line dividing between the two. For instance, a ‘successful' project could have exceeded the planned budget or went over scheduled delivery date or could even not have provided all the planned functionalities upon completion. Whereas a ‘failed’ project could have a release with all planned features but missed the critical market launch or could not align with the direction of new leadership team. Brian K Willard in his <a href="http://maxwideman.com/guests/metrics/failures.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.15s ease;" target="_blank">Project Success and Failures</a> article has shared examples, which strengthens the point that success or failure of a project are subjective. </div>
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In my earlier post, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-sharing-lessons-learned-key-matured-pmo-sridhar-peddisetty" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.15s ease;" target="_blank">Why Sharing Lessons Learned Is Key For Matured PMO</a>, I discussed why sharing 'lessons learned' across teams is one of the key aspects of a matured PMO in an Organization. A well organized exercise to document 'Lessons learned’ would include identifying the ‘success’ factors of a project and understand how to repurpose it for future or existing projects. Success factors that could be salvaged from a ‘failed’ project could be</div>
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The exploitation of knowledge and experience gained from completed projects is very critical for a matured organization and application of the same for continuous improvements. </div>
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To summarize, do not judge a ‘failed' project too soon without getting specific facts for learning lessons. It's important to identify and share the ‘success’ value of a project even if it failed to meet its main strategic goals.</div>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-45614595580332839762015-11-04T13:35:00.000-08:002015-11-06T04:11:25.613-08:00DevOps Need Collaboration To Succeed As A Practice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“A great team doesn’t mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.” </em>― <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win</strong></div>
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<span style="color: #62686b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.8;">DevOps formulates collaboration of Operations and Engineering teams to achieve continuous delivery by participating together in the entire service delivery lifecycle. DevOps is NOT a role but it is a shift in culture of an organization, which encourages greater communication and collaboration to foster building better quality software more quickly and with better reliability. There are good number of people who agree that DevOps is not a new phenomena and some organizations have been formulating collaboration of Operations and Engineering teams to achieve continuous delivery by participating together for releasing new product or service. However there are good number of organizations who are either warming up to the idea of DevOps and ready to adopt it or going through initial phase of DevOps adoption. It is important for the organizations to understand that "collaboration culture” is key for them to successfully adapt to DevOps. In my earlier post </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/kanban-devops-forming-perfect-alliance-sridhar-peddisetty" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #065e97; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.15s ease;" target="_blank">Kanban & DevOps - Forming A Perfect Alliance</a><span style="color: #62686b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.8;">, I shared how Kanban and DevOps combine together to help bring down the silos between Engineering and Operations teams. </span></div>
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To understand why DevOps need collaboration to succeed, let's understand <a href="http://agilitrix.com/2011/03/how-to-make-your-culture-work/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #065e97; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.15s ease;" target="_blank">Schneider Culture Model</a>, which defines four distinct cultures:</div>
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In the diagram below, Michael Sahota shared his thoughts on understanding the culture of an organization using <a href="http://agilitrix.com/2011/03/how-to-make-your-culture-work/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #065e97; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.15s ease;" target="_blank">Schneider Culture Model</a>. Each of the four cultures are depicted – one in each quadrant with each having a name, descriptive quote, a picture, and some words that characterize that quadrant. </div>
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As can be seen in the diagram, collaboration quadrant includes the words affiliation, synergy, partnership, interaction, trust, diversity and egalitarian to characterize itself while the descriptive quote is “we succeed by working together”. These are the exact characteristics that are needed for DevOps to succeed as a practice in an Organization in which Engineering and Operations teams come together to work with affiliation, synergy, trust as partners by closely interacting with egalitarian philosophy. </div>
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Note that according to Schneider model, no one culture type is considered better than another and same is applicable to DevOps, in which possibly cultural elements from other quadrants (control, cultivation and competence) are applicable to DevOps. Depending on the organization but for DevOps to succeed, definitely the organization needs to have ‘Collaboration’ as the single dominant culture with elements from the other three culture quadrants.</div>
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By adapting to the culture of DevOps, an organization is not only focusing on agility but also on reliability by eliminating waste, identifying repeatable steps and automating those steps. Organizations will fail in adapting DevOps if the culture is not breaking down the organizational silos and in which everyone shares the accountability for delivery.</div>
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DevOps represents both a technology and a culture change in the organization and the objective of DevOps can be achieved only if the culture of the organization is more collaborative. In other words, DevOps need more of a "collaboration culture” in the organization to succeed as a practice. </div>
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In the comments section, please share your thoughts on what do you think an Organization must do for DevOps to succeed and make a positive impact. </div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">There's an old sea story about a ship's Captain who inspected his sailors, and afterward told the first mate that his men smelled bad. The Captain suggested perhaps it would help if the sailors would change underwear occasionally. The first mate responded, "Aye, aye sir, I'll see to it immediately!" and went straight to the sailors berth deck and announced, "The Captain thinks you guys smell bad and wants you to change your underwear." He continued, "Pittman, you change with Jones, McCarthy, you change with Witkowski, and Brown, you change with Schneider."</em></div>
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Whether your Organization is using Agile or Iterative or Traditional methodology to deliver services to its customers, Change Management is a key component to ensure alignment of plan with strategic objectives. Change Management is a structured approach comprising of an approval process, which allows a change request to move through a series of approval stages to ensure that the lasting benefits of change are achieved. Organizations still struggle to implement a robust Change Management process vetting out the changes as they ought to be.</div>
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<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">People are not very receptive to expect change. Either there is not a good process to identify and report change or enough stakeholders are not involved early enough to vet out the change. </span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">More often than not, necessary ‘Change Impact Analysis’ is not performed to truly understand the impact of a ‘Change’ and how its aligned with the strategic objectives of an Organization. </span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Project plans are not always changed to reflect the impact of a change, which could effect overall schedule, cost and likely result in scope creep. </span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">If the project plans are changed, they are not communicated to all project stakeholders to ensure everyone are aware of the change, its likely impact and seek approvals. </span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Weigh the priorities of the change with the tasks in pipeline, aligning with strategic objectives of the Organization </span></li>
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Presently all Organizations are growing through a disruptive phase whether its technology transformation, changing customer demographics, challenging economic times, etc. In this phase, It is an organization's ability to learn and translate that learning into action rapidly, which gives it the ultimate competitive advantage. In other words, sustaining success depends on an organization’s ability to adapt to a changing environment. Implementing a robust Change Management reduces disruptive aspects and emphasizes positive opportunities in the change process. </div>
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In my future blog posts, I will be sharing how specifically to plan Change Management in an Enterprise Agile setup. </div>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-13070111342560864402015-11-04T13:16:00.000-08:002015-11-04T13:16:57.641-08:005 Tips Delivering Quality Services To Your Client<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">A gentleman once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, “Do you need two statues of the same idol?” “No,” said the sculptor without looking up, “We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage.” The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. “Where is the damage?” he asked. “There is a scratch on the nose of the idol.” said the sculptor, still busy with his work. “Where are you going to install the idol?” The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high. “If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?” the gentleman asked. The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, “I know it and God knows it!”</em></div>
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It was probably the understatement of the year when <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34322016" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #065e97; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.15s ease;" target="_blank">President and CEO of Volkswagen's US group admitted that the company "totally screwed up" in using software to rig emissions tests</a>. More than the tangible monetary losses, it's the intangible reputation & loss of customer trust that will impact Volkswagen the most.</div>
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According to Gartner, 65% of a company’s business comes from existing customers, and it costs five times as much to attract a new customer than to keep an existing one satisfied. So it is a no brainer to understand that retaining an existing customer is very important for the continuous growth of any company. In my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/7-tips-having-good-times-client-relationship-sridhar-peddisetty" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #065e97; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.15s ease;" target="_blank">7 Tips Having Good Times In A Client Relationship</a>, I shared tips for helping experience the good times in a client relationship while converting them into everlasting memories & forging long term relationships. According to report from <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1883120" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #065e97; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.15s ease;" target="_blank">Oracle</a>:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #62686b; line-height: 1.8; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; position: relative;">81% - customers are willing to pay more for a superior customer experience with nearly half (44%) willing to pay a premium of more than 5%.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #62686b; line-height: 1.8; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; position: relative;">89% - customers switched brands after a poor customer experience.</li>
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Below I am sharing 5 tips on how to deliver quality services to your client and ensuring trusting relationships</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tip#1:</strong> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand the strategic objectives of your client -</strong> Long everlasting relationships begin with knowing your clients' wants and needs. Most times the focus is on scope, schedule, cost and the solution. It is important to understand the business problem or the strategic goal, which the client needs to achieve. We need to provide simple solutions to complex problems and not the other way around. </div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tip#2:</strong> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Provide transparency in the delivery process to your client -</strong> Transparency is important in every business and client service is no different. Always strive for a high quality output by being transparent with your client on the delivery process and keep them engaged. Being transparent and with robust communication, you minimize the element of surprise and at the same time, earn client’s trust. One reason for wide adoption of <a href="http://sridharpeddisetty.blogspot.com.ar/search/label/Agile" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #065e97; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.15s ease;" target="_blank">Agile</a> is mainly because it encourages customer involvement throughout the delivery process. </div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tip#3:</strong> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Proactively plan for frequent client feedbacks -</strong> You need to measure client satisfaction and engagement by taking frequent feedbacks. Regular check points with the client can help easily identify areas of concern and perform course corrections before issues lead to an unhappy client. Without constant feedback from clients, it's more like working in a vacuum and waiting to be surprised. </div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tip#4:</strong> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Be consistent in providing your services -</strong> Every client is important and you need to appreciate that by creating a unique client experience. Whether your client is a fortune 100 or not, be consistent in providing your services. It's a fact that a satisfied client would be willing to refer your services, leading to increased opportunities; while a non-satisfied client can spread the word faster and even more so via social media. </div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tip#5:</strong> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Share your new services, processes, tools or competencies -</strong> A proactive customer service to help find solutions for continuous improvement not only helps keep the client happy but turns them into your strong brand advocate. You are cultivating shared values by engaging the client in your new services, processes, tools or competencies, which fosters relationships. </div>
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To summarize, clients do not owe you their loyalty, you have to earn it continuously. Any organization’s strategy for their services should be built around delivering quality customer service. When performed properly, you have earned a happy client for life. </div>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-55455575078860652582015-10-29T13:11:00.004-07:002015-10-29T13:13:17.256-07:00Everyone's Perspective Is Key In Retrospectives<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the early 20th century, an Architect and an Engineer entered a fancy hotel with a roll of blueprints to investigate how to add an elevator to the building. As they were measuring and planning where to knock holes in walls, the Janitor walked up and asked what they were doing. They told him that they would be installing a new elevator in the building. The Janitor quipped, "That's gonna make quite a mess." Both the Architect and the Engineer assured the Janitor that he would get help cleaning up after they were finished. The Janitor scoffed: "I don't know why you want to go through all that trouble. If it were me I'd put the elevator on the outside of the building and save the fuss." The Engineer looked at the Architect and they were dumbstruck--and the elevator on the outside of a building was born.</em></div>
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People with a different perspective can come up with some incredible ideas. Above is an example of an incredible idea, which goes to show that everyone’s inputs are equally important. Even though most of us understand this well, sometimes during retrospective meetings, the Scrum Master or Facilitator fails to have all participants share their thoughts. Not everyone in the team is an extrovert or feels secure enough to share individual opinions in front of others. So the onus lies on the Facilitator of the retrospective meeting to ensure everyone’s perspective is taken. </div>
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Whether doing retrospective with co-located team or a remote team, it’s important to have a meeting setup, which instills comfort for the participants. Personally, I have seen retrospectives done over video conference where some participants are not visible on the screen, which makes it uncomfortable for some to speak while not being visible. Ideally, retrospectives should not include anyone who is not going to contribute. Some members could possibly feel uncomfortable speaking in front of an audience who are not part of the team or does not have anything to contribute in the meeting. </div>
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Provide an opportunity for participants to be prepared for the retrospective meeting. Normally the tool provides visibility of the goals for a sprint or a release and the actual deliveries. It helps to summarize what was planned, what was achieved and other relevant details in the agenda so that the participants can come prepared with their thoughts to share. It also helps to share the status on action items ahead of time and what has been accomplishment in terms of continuous improvement from the lessons learned from the past retrospective meetings. </div>
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We understand that not all technically skilled resources have good soft skills and some struggle to take time to explain their view point. It’s important to time box but at the same time a good Facilitator understands how to encourage participants to share their perspective. A Facilitator can ensure that someone is actively taking notes for future reference as needed. The Facilitator can also help in ensuring that technical details are understood by the non-technical participants. </div>
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The Facilitator should direct the conversations to encourage participants remain focused on the objective of the retrospective and ensuring that thoughts are challenged as needed and not the people. No side conversations or comments should be encouraged while a participant is sharing thoughts. The Facilitator should ensure that participants’ thoughts are respected and people can disagree without being disagreeable. </div>
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The Facilitator should ensure that there is a consensus on actionable items and identify the owner of the respective action item before wrapping up the meeting. Having a consensus encourages participants to think for themselves as a team. The Facilitator should also summarize main points discussed in the meeting and later follow up with an email or publish in a tool including meeting minutes. </div>
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The best teamwork comes from the team members who are working independently but toward one goal in unison and working in an environment where everyone’s perspective is encouraged, heard and respected. </div>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-91121923258265654632015-10-23T14:14:00.000-07:002015-10-23T14:19:13.935-07:00Minimum Marketable Features: An Agile Essential<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Agile is all about adapting to change; it was built on the foundational principle that business drivers will change and the development teams must be ready to adapt"</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Organizations no longer compete on product or service but they compete on experience of faster to market with quality results. It is an organization's ability to learn and translate that learning into action rapidly, which gives it the ultimate competitive advantage. More often than not, it’s seen that most organizations focus on delivering the software and not paying enough attention to the value the software brings to the business. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Minimum Marketable Feature (MMF) is the smallest set of functionality that can be delivered, which has value to both the organization delivering it and the end customer using it. MMF is characterized by its three attributes: Minimum, Marketable and Feature.</span></div>
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<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Minimum attribute represents the smallest set whether a feature or feature set, which is key for faster time to market </span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Marketable attribute represents the selling of the significant value to the end customer and to the delivering organization </span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Feature attribute represents the perceived value by the end customer and delivering organization. Value may include brand recognition, competitive advantage, revenue generation, cost savings or enhanced customer loyalty. </span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://sridharpeddisetty.blogspot.com.ar/search/label/Agile" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.15s ease;" target="_blank">Agile</a> is an iteratively incremental SDLC methodology in which requirements and solutions evolve through communication and collaboration between self-organizing and cross-functional teams. Agile promotes ‘building the right thing’ through </span></div>
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<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Customer involvement, </span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Adaptive planning, </span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Evolutionary development, </span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Early delivery, </span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Continuous improvement and </span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Encourages rapid & flexible response to change </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">in delivering high quality product or service. MMF provides an essential tool to effectively decompose customer needs into finer grain features, which can be delivered more rapidly than waiting for large scale features to be complete. Using the concepts of MMF, decompose the epics into smaller sets of user stories that provide value to end users in shorter development cycles. In Agile SDLC, it’s during the product backlog grooming when the value of requirements or features can be quantified based on how these requirements contribute to the business objectives. During the grooming, using INVEST model to define a user story or MoSCoW for prioritization, various models or methods could be applied that helps to identify the most important features to implement or identifies the MMFs. A release could then be the collection of MMFs, which can be delivered together within the time frame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Product innovation is tied to change and often the need for change appears midstream in a project so decomposing the requirements into Minimum Marketable Features (MMF) helps have the edge while improving the time to market. One essential advantage of MMF is the ability to make changes during development without being too disruptive. In other words, MMF helps in adjusting product requirements during development in response to customer feedback. Jim Shore in his <a href="http://www.jamesshore.com/Articles/Business/Software%20Profitability%20Newsletter/Phased%20Releases.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.15s ease;" target="_blank">Phase Releases</a> article had shared how to use phased delivery to increase project value:</span></div>
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<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Group functionality into MMFs that can be released individually.</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Create a release plan that deploys high-value features first.</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Have the entire team focus on one releasable feature at a time.</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Use continuous design to spread out investment in technical infrastructure.</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.8;">Deploy releases as soon as possible.</span></li>
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Sridhar Peddisettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02559420387645562253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604729851848691209.post-61953761311278087032015-10-23T14:00:00.000-07:002015-10-23T14:14:27.333-07:005 Tips on Strategizing Your Key Project Resources<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #666666;">Once there was a company with a vast scrap yard that needed someone to guard it. So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job. Then someone thought, how would the watchman do the job without instructions? So the company decided to create a planning department and hired two people. One person was hired to write the instructions while the other person performed time studies. Later someone from the company thought, how would we know whether the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly…? So they created a quality control department and hired two people. One employee to do the studies and the other to write reports. After that, someone from the company thought, how are these people going to get paid…? So they created another set of positions, hiring two more people, a time keeper and a payroll officer. Again someone from the company said, who would be accountable for all of these people…? So they created an administrative section, hiring three more people, an administrative officer, an assistant administrative officer and a legal secretary. Finally, after one year, an executive in the company realized they were $18,000 over budget and must cut-back on overall costs. So the company laid off the night watchman.</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Firstly, it’s very important to identify who are the key resources for your project. Normally the key resources for a project are those with niche or advanced skills and knowledge or combination of skills and knowledge, which makes them indispensable. Once the key resources are identified, then it’s easier to follow the next tips in strategizing for them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Identify tasks for key project resources and do resource leveling until no key resource is overloaded. In my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/empower-your-team-own-responsibilities-sridhar-peddisetty?trk=mp-reader-card" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.15s ease;" target="_blank">Empower Your Team To Own Responsibilities</a>, I had shared that the key to start empowering your team to own responsibilities is by making the list of tasks, which play to their strengths better and letting them own those tasks. Also in my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trust-your-team-make-sure-verify-sridhar-peddisetty?trk=mp-reader-card" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.15s ease;" target="_blank">Trust Your Team But Make Sure To Verify</a>, I shared that it’s an important trait for the Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager to trust the self performing team to execute and deliver on business value but verifying the same with stage gates is essential.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Robust communication, leadership and emotional intelligence are necessary to effectively communicate with key project resources in order to inspire and motivate them. It is important for the Project Manager to have the ability to strike a balance between knowing what motivates the key project resources and what they are working on. Work with the key resources to identify their goals and fitting them into the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic & Time bound) acronym. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Create a transparent, collaborative and productive environment in which project resources are encouraged to take calculative risks while challenging the status quo. If you want your key resources to take the risk of innovation then you have to give them freedom to fail. We understand that often your best people are the ones who make the worst mistakes, because your best people do the most complex work. In my earlier post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-reasons-let-your-team-struggle-today-sridhar-peddisetty" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.15s ease;" target="_blank">5 Reasons To Let Your Team Struggle Today</a>, I had shared that in the face of adversity would emerge your next leaders, who emerge stronger and smarter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tip#5: Plan a roadmap for their growth </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It’s important to invest in your key resources and train them in emerging skills or knowledge. Most organizations do not plan roadmaps for their key resources to grow, fearing the risk that they may leave. Experience teaches us that it’s better to train key resources and risk they leave, than not planning a growth roadmap and risk that they stay. </span></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If a drop of water falls in a lake, there is no identity. But if it falls on a leaf, it shines. So make sure to create an environment for your key project resources where their abilities and identity always shine.</span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 12.6px;">#SridharPeddisetty, #Argentina, #BuenosAires, #</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 12.6px;">Malba,</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 12.6px;"> #Museum, #Travel, #EuropeanArt, #PlacesToVisit, #PointsofInterest</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">Below are the pictures of taken in </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #771100; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"><a href="http://www.malba.org.ar/">Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA)</a></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">, </span></span><a href="http://sridharpeddisetty.blogspot.com.ar/search/label/Buenos%20Aires" style="color: #771100; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-decoration: none;">Buenos Aires</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">,</span></span><a href="http://sridharpeddisetty.blogspot.com.ar/search/label/Argentina" style="color: #771100; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-decoration: none;">Argentina</a></span><br />
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