Advance Agility

  Being agile means exploring various options and changing behavior for betterment. Agile starts from a change of mindset. The traditional mindset that, obtaining success always requires speeding up the process of working as well as thinking, is not what agile considers. Agile accepts the new concepts and processes that can help for growth then it may be for change in processes or thinking. One such concept that agile appreciate is of thinking fast and slow. Agile understands the requirement of going slow sometimes so that the idea of the direction we are heading, defining our priorities, and bringing positive noticeable change can be achieved. Understanding fast and slow thinking helps us find more rational solutions to issues we are facing. As a human, we think that we are more rational with our thinking but our human thinking is more biased, oversimplified, and distorted. With fast and slow thinking we can identify our thinking and rectify or fine-tune thinking so that...

  We have almost reached the middle of agile transformation. Agile started for software development organizations are now leading various industries towards success with their practices and principles. Almost every industry is using an agile system for their benefit and including SAFe or other related frameworks for agile expansion in their organization. With the day expansion of agile in industries, the need for being an expert in agile is increasing. Every organization is trying to be an agile expert, finding the faults in their implementation and correcting them to improve agile practices and principles along with adapting to various concepts that support agile . To obtain expertise in agile processes organizations require an expert who can pinpoint their mistakes in agile and help them improve processes and grow their business. To satisfy this need in business an agile consultant is introduced. Even though many roles in agile have various responsibilities and a...

“ You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. ”– John C. Maxwell In our daily routine, almost 40 percent of the work we do is based on our habits. That means our big part in life is on autopilot. Think if that’s the case, by bringing up good habits in ourselves how much progress we can make on daily basis. Think it through and measure what habits you have that can help you succeed or make change for the better. Agile has always encouraged its users in becoming a better version of themselves not only in the aspect of working in their organization but also as an individual and their mindsets. The book “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” written by Stephen R. Covey has provided some habits when implemented can provide immense benefits to the individual in day-to-day life as well as in their work. If we see the habits they have mentioned they are also so effective and relate more to an agile mind...

Along with agile implementation, SAFe is also becoming more popular and is adopted by various organizations small, medium, and large. SAFe is becoming a leader of frameworks in an organization as it helps them in scaling agile practices and principles. As SAFe training is required for the entire team, even its very basic configuration requires a large investment of cost and time. With available cost and time implementing SAFe in an organization is a challenging task. Agile also includes collaboration, delivery, and alignment among different teams including that SAFe provides flexibility and evolving frameworks that meet incremental milestones. This critical role of implementing SAFe all over the teams and organization is carried out by the persons who can handle pressure and a lot of responsibilities at once. The individuals handling this immense pressure and responsibilities are called SAFe Program Consultants (SPC). They are the agents who combine various roles and their te...

When your efforts pay and gains success achieving the desired aim makes you work more. But then working hard, smart work is required in today’s modern days. Understanding where to put efforts for maximum benefits is what requires for planning. The Pareto principle or 80/20 rule explains how putting effort into the right things is important. It stated that only 20% of your work helps you achieve 80% of results. So understanding and putting efforts at the right place is what requires gaining your aim. Prioritization of work with ruthless management is what required accomplishing the goals most of the time but we avoid doing the needful. The 80/20 rule makes us understand that doing things is not what always is doing the best thing. The 80/20 rule not just applies to effort in project work but it can be seen in every aspect. If we see that almost 80% of wealth is with 20% of people in the country, 80% of revenue is gained from 20% of product taxes, 80% of crime is done by 20% criminals, a...