Advance Agility

As I have said many times, agile is not about following a process but it is a mindset. It is a mindset that makes us aware of our thoughts and actions helping us to take the right decisions and work on them for our organization's betterment. It embraces every positive concept that can help in improving the process and individuals helping them grow. One of the trending concepts that are blooming in agile now a day is of using visual thinking. Let’s see in detail how it’s helping agile . How will you feel when you can visualize your ideas, and solve the problem? It will make your work a lot easier, right? When concepts or processes is presented in visuals we as human are more tend to understand them quickly and work out the solution more easily compared to written content or imagination. It is because we are attracted to visuals more easily than anything else. What is Visual Thinking? It is a cognitive phenomenon through visual processing; this helps in visualizing words in...

  With increasing digital technology, we say that the world is getting farther from each other and communication is decreasing. But when it comes to a certain point whether it be health, emotions, or even business there is no option other than communicating and speaking your mind. Even digital platforms started flourishing only because of the human need for socialization. As we have seen agile has always with its future vision decides its processes and concepts, and communication is highly important in agile . Communication is one of the basic needs in agile in software development, operations, and support. Compared to the traditional way agile has understood the importance of communication in businesses at the very basic. Agile understood that without successful communication there can be no successful team or successful organization. They know how effective communication can change the smaller to larger things for achieving high benefits, productivity, efficiency, and much mo...

There are various roles in agile that confuse newcomers. But even if many roles in an agile sound similar to ears but they are different in their responsibilities. In some cases, the roles are nearly the same when seen roughly but when understand thoroughly you can watch the difference. Two similar sounding roles in agile are agile coaches and agile consultants. Yes, they both are there to help you! But when and where to choose and who, is where the question arises.  In this article let’s seek an answer to this question. The difference between Coaches and Consultants Coaching is a process where an individual known as the coach works with people who have already achieved some success in their path but are stagnant, coaches assist them to clarify their doubts and put their best effort into achieving their goals and gaining high performance.  The coaching process involves effective listening, facilitating, and supporting personal development. Coaching is done generally for a long...

The pronged approach for developing mental health is thoughts, behavior, and emotions. That means irrational thoughts need to be replaced by realistic ones. Acting in a good way by understanding situations, and having higher EQ that is to not get controlled by feelings but understand them and control them. Sounds familiar? Yes, we have gone through all these concepts in agile . A gile is not only a methodology used to change processes, but it involves the development of a complete individual-to-individual scaling up of an organization. By refusing to go with the traditional way of working where only higher managements are the ones who take decisions and others follow them without questioning. Agile has started a new way of working where everyone has their share of decision making and their contribution other than only physical work. Agile has started involving and explaining the right way of handling emotions, mental power, and physical strength in the right way for improving produc...

We all know getting higher in your roles, comes the higher responsibilities. In agile , a product owner is one of the roles that have higher responsibilities and requires a different set of skills compared to other team members . The role of the product owner is central to the agile framework and methodology. To be a good product owner is a mix of several basic levels as well as management level skills along with high-performing experience. As the name suggests they need to own the product ensuring to meet the user requirements as well as also think from the team’s point of view in developing it considering the technical aspects. In agile organizations, they are there for value maximization, optimization, product vision, and backlog management. Product owner in agile has lot many tasks to perform which we have already seen in our previous articles but here is a brief explanation of their important roles below. ·        They define product objectives and ...