Life!

Do not take life too seriously, becuase you will never come out of it alive ! - Sri Sri Ravishankar

Expert !

"An expert is someone who has made every mistake possible within a very narrow field of inquiry."

#9 Implementing agile

Bottom up Vs top down

While the top down sponsorship is important for implementing agile, implementation has to be bottom up. Start with smaller teams with a need of change. Pick up projects which are in the start up stage, or look for projects which are almost failures, and then implement agile as a recovery strategy. The key is to look for teams with a need for agile, and create early success stories around them which will make scaling agile easier.

# 8 Implementing agile

Right team selection

"Serve food only for the hungry" - is the right approach while selecting the agile team members. Look for those guys who are really unhappy with the current way of doing things and for the habitual early adopters. Ignore those ones who are resistant to change during the early stages, till the tipping point is reached. Once the tipping point is reached, the fence sitters also will get converted.

#7 Implementing agile

Right attitude

" Obstacles are the things we see, when we take our eyes off the target "

Agile is all about risk taking, and making things happen. Making this happen in an offshore / out sourced environment is quite challenging, as the work environment is not conducive for risk taking. There is no silver bullet to achieve this. The team leader, the team and the HR should work on this together.

Joy !

Joy is not in things. It is in us. ~ Richard Wagner ~

Trust

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”Ernest Hemingway, American author and Nobel prize winner.

Meetings

Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.

~ William Goldman

Courtesy - Walk the talk

A Little More Effort … A Lot More Results

Think you have to make huge changes and expend a ton of extra energy to achieve bigger and better results? Think again! And consider this …At 211 degrees, water is hot. At 212 degrees, it boils. And with boiling water comes steam. And with steam, you can power a train. Applying just one extra degree of temperature to water means the difference between something that is simply very hot and something that generates enough force to power a large machine. The message of this simple yet powerful metaphor should be clear to all:Seemingly small things can make tremendous differences.

The key learning is equally powerful: The application of additional heat (effort) to whatever task or activity you undertake will not only help you achieve the primary objective you seek, but also reap exponential rewards that are possible by applying one extra degree of effort.Imagine the possibilities …

Add just a few hours each month to your professional development outside of the work and you will have invested the equivalent of a full work. Make just one extra contact each day …a sales call … a customer … a brief discussion with a col- league … an encouraging talk with a member of your team. With contact comes opportunity. At the end of the year you’ll have opened more than 200 additional doors of possibility.

Eliminate one half hour of television watching each day and you’ll gain 182.5 hours each year to use elsewhere (equivalent to four and a half weeks of work).Imagine YOUR possibilities. Where can you give a little more effort? What small changes can you make that will add up over time? As a leader, what can you do – what will you do – to enjoy the rewards that come from “turning up the heat” one extra degree? Find those opportunities … and seize them!

Recession cooler

Due to the current financial crisis, to save money - the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off indefinitely!!!