Guiding Experiences

Author: 2bendres

  • Organizational agility in practice

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    Posted originally on Medium on April 15th, 2017 In his book, Joseph Flahiff states, “Being agile in a waterfall world,” Agile is about the ability to adapt (to changing circumstances); it is an adjective and not a noun. For a person, agility could mean — physical agility (someone with a flexible body) or mental agility, where they…

  • Tracks issue on Agile2017 submission form

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    The reason for this post is simple: I am not sure if there is a way to report discrepancies to Agile Alliance (@agilealliance) on it’s site – especially for the #Agile2017 program. It is an attempt to collect these issues reported/observed, a running backlog and not any criticism. After all, I am a part of…

  • Managing professional connection requests

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    LinkedIn as a product tool has great uses. HOW one uses it varies from person to person. That creates an interesting challenge for you if you are a subscriber. When I joined LinkedIn, I just wanted it to be where my professional career summary is available. There are “recommendations” from people I worked with to…

  • Reflecting

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    I am not even going to look at how long I haven’t posted. Cause I know, it’s been a long time. But during that time, I have a LOT to be thankful about. Few of them listed here: I joined an incredible company and happy with the environment, work culture, and colleagues. I am valued…

  • Distances suck..

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    There are times in life when you really hate the distance – being away from Parents, especially when they need help and you can’t be there. The chain reaction of thoughts starts, takes you back to “What am I doing here?”, “Why can’t we be together?”… While growing up, my parents helped me guide through…

  • “Safety and security..”

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    “Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.” – Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa While the world is trying to comprehend Newtown, CT, about the inhumane incident,…

  • A good sign

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    See those white spots on my fingers? Skin peeling off. That’s a good sign for a guitar practitioner. It’s a sign I’ve been practicing. When I started learning guitar, just before college and was regularly practicing, it started the same, and then it gets harder and blackish as one keeps playing with the strings regularly.…

  • Sharing an experiment from past (Guitar recording)

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    Sharing an experiment from past (Guitar recording) Abhijeet Deshmukh (@_abhijeet_d) and I are more than friends, we’re family. We’ve grown up together – shared our success, fears, crushes, tears, lunch boxes and stayed up late night studying together.We were each other’s worst enemies on field – for cricket and table tennis – and we’re the…

  • User Stories: My knowledge bank of “value”able reads

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    I have been writing user stories for more than a couple of years now. I am still learning and improving. And every story I write next – I try to improve it: Bring “value” to it. As a group manager of few online agile/scrum groups, I see many experienced people struggling to understand the concept…

  • Agile & Music: Suggestion for an experiment

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    Who doesn’t love music? We all have different choices, tastes – but we all listen and have our favorites. I like listening to various music and play guitar (Disclaimer: I am not a music major or a pro). There’s been this one thing on my mind for a long time, and I could not resist this…