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• Get me 200 rejections and let’s talk…
  on May 26, 2014 in General Mindset Failure Idea Rejection Think
  If the only reason you 'think' is so that you could think along what others are thinking, you might as well not think at all! Life is too precious to be lived in 'more of same' format.
• Three questions every program manager must ask
  on Apr 22, 2014 in Program Management Project Management questions
  Suppose you are the new program manager assigned to a program. How would you go about finding your way inside the complex maze of a program, its stakeholders, sponsors, component teams and various vendors?
• Hard work is killing people. Literally!
  on Apr 18, 2014 in Agile HR Lean People Project Management burnout sustainable pace work-life balance
  Burnout is a serious issue for several countries, industries and people, even if we don't acknowledge in as many words. In our industry, where heroism, cowboy programming and all-nighters are considered cool and an integral part of the software subcu...
• Let’s free up agile teams…
  on Feb 2, 2014 in Agile Project Management distributed team remote team
  Why are we so parochial in software industry about not recognizing the bigger economic sense rather than limiting ourselves to a singular idea that collocated teams are the best option?
• How do you design agile feedback?
  on Jan 15, 2014 in Agile feedback training
  Feedback is perhaps the most important aspect of the overall agile lifecycle - without a proper, honest and timely feedback, there is no ‘adapt’ step in the inspect-adapt cycle. However designing a proper feedback instrument for a human-human int...
• What Emerging Markets Customers Really Want from the Internet: An Indian Perspective
  on Apr 18, 2013 in India Internet New Product Development Emerging Markets
  India is a new gold rush market. Home to some 1.2 Billion people, half of whom under the age 25, and buoyed by the recent economic growth, the country is poised to be a major economic powerhouse for the next few decades before becoming the second lar...
• The Joys of Designing Agile Solutions for New-Age Problems
  on Apr 2, 2013 in Agile Innovation New Product Development
  Pune is hosting India's first Scrum Gathering this year in July with the theme of "Scrum - Kal, Aaj aur Kal", meaning the past, present and future of Scrum. I appreciate all efforts by Madhur Khaturia and his team in making it happen. I hope and beli...
• Does your process help you preserve status quo, or deliver some kick-ass skunk works?
  on Mar 9, 2013 in Innovation New Product Development Product Innovation Project Management Skunk works
  Problem-solving in the past has been dominated by methods involving rigorous and meticulous planning and flawless execution – something that has been questioned, largely by results (or rather the absence of it) in the recent years, if that is (stil...
• So, does agile really kill innovation?
  on Mar 5, 2013 in Agile Innovation
  In continuation of my earlier blog post on ‘Does Agile Kill Innovation?’, I had a great time moderating the panel discussion at Agile India 2013 with Henrik Kniberg, Owen Rogers, Sujatha Balakrishnan, Udayan Banerjee, Praful Pillay and Sudipta La...
• How do you manage intercultural issues in your teams?
  on Feb 24, 2013 in Cross-cultural Project Management Remote teams Team
  Distributed and virtual teams are a reality of today’s world. It is not just limited to well-heeled MNCs – we see countless everyday examples of such teams with NGOs, startups, voluntary efforts, college project and so on. There is more to workin...

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