Guiding Experiences

Tag: Agile

  • Beyond Parties: A Reflective New Year Tradition

    Beyond Parties: A Reflective New Year Tradition

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    Meghana and I chose a different New Year’s celebration, opting for a quiet night at home to ease our dog’s anxiety about fireworks. We enjoyed a sober evening with a healthy meal and engaging in a reflective game about the past year. This exercise sparked meaningful discussion and highlighted the absence of work-related concerns.

  • About

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    Namaskar! Thank you for taking the time to know about me. I am Sameer Bendre – born and brought up in Nagpur, India. I completed my Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Technology and have been in the IT industry since my graduation in 1999. I came to the United States in 2003. Johns Creek (Northeast…

  • Enterprises – Ignoring users is killing your software adoption!

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    Published originally on medium on June 12, 2017 If you lead any software delivery team as an executive, manager, leader, or whatever title makes you happy, take a moment to meet your delivery teams and tell them this: “..keep up your work, just remember that whatever you are building, only 25% of it is going…

  • 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…

  • 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…