Agile

Sustainability, Agility, and all small things that make the world a better place – The 2021 SustainAgility Conference

It’s the 1st anniversary of The Sustainable Agile Manifesto – a movement to discover better ways of working. The manifesto is a guiding light for individuals, teams, leaders, and enterprises to navigate the super VUCA world ahead of us and discover a new normal, a better world, and better earth. I’ve been a student and …

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Leadership Insomnia – 3 Steps to Growth Mindset

Leadership insomnia is a mixed state of mind. It limits leaders’ ability to function as a leader. In this state, a leader finds herself/himself bogged down with unclear objectives, conflicting priorities, and unchecked ego. It blinds the leader from ground reality and inhibits clarity of purpose!  Know someone who is suffering from Leadership insomnia? Here are …

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Future of Agile – The Manifesto for Sustainable Agile for new normal

COVID-19 is proving to be a turning point in history. The changes introduced by this crisis are extraordinary and fundamentally reshaping our beliefs and behaviours. The immediate short term measures, policies and direct experiences are already changing how we work, including greater emphasis on remote working, digital collaboration, workplace distancing, and support for temporary workers …

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Good to Great with DevOps

DevOps is continuously evolving. Ever since the term was coined in 2009, the state of DevOps evolved exponentially year on year. Fast forward in 2019, organisations of every sizes and shapes (enterprises to start-ups) share great amount of excitement around DevOps. Each organization has their own DevOps story. Some of these stories are yet to …

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Want to transform fast? Stop doing all transformations in one go.

In today’s super VUCA world, enterprises are facing a mandate to transform in order to meet the ever changing needs of customer / market. Whether it is about launching the next major phase in an organization, executing a new corporate strategy to achieve breakthrough performance, enabling a new executive leader to take charge, or integrating …

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Leadership for Banks of Future

Banks of future might not look like what they are today. When you hear the term “bank”, the visual that comes to the mind is ATMs, Teller counters, Big buildings and Branch offices and so on. Will this be the trend going forward? – I doubt so. Banking is becoming personal and individualistic as we …

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Multi-Speed IT Environment – Lessons from field

Multi Speed IT

In majority of phased enterprise agile transformation programs, Multi-speed IT is unavoidable. When I say Multi-speed IT, I refer to a world where agile and waterfall (legacy) initiatives co-exist and need to work hand in hand to deliver business outcomes. In last two decades, I had the opportunity to work with different enterprises in variety …

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Win Your DevOps Conversation with Business Leaders

Pillars of DevOps

In today’s world, every business is driven by software. We are living in an era where technology drives behaviors, decisions and business outcomes. Any time you have an app or website or software element, software development becomes critical part of day-to-day business strategy — even for non-traditional software companies. Because of the mandatory role software …

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Scaling DevOps – take a holistic approach to drive business value

DevOps Pilot to Enterprise

Different People understand DevOps differently. In majority of cases people focus only on Tools and believe DevOps is all about tools. Few people start with processes related to software engineering or technical excellence and try to over-engineer them. Very few people holistically understand what DevOps means and how DevOps can help business value delivery. Don’t get me wrong here – It’s okay to start with tools or process focus, however that’s not what DevOps is all about.