Model-based thinking requires training the mind, most notably developing an ability to stop and think. Personally, looking through the lens of a particular model often led me to a much better understanding of the problems and sometimes even redefining the problem itself. The article presents 10 mental models that I…

Agile goes mainstream, declares 15th state of the agile report. The report highlights an explosive increase in agile adoption across enterprises. 94% report their companies are using agile approaches. Across software development teams especially, agile adoption has shot up from 37% in 2020 to a whopping 86% in 2021.Development and…

One of the 12 principles in the agile manifesto states: The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation. However given the distributed nature of the world we live in, is it always possible or practical to form co-located development teams…

Mindset, or rather a lack of it, is often cited as the core reason that Agile implementations struggle. Well, they “never fail” technically — at least on the PowerPoint. However, there is no agility. The situation pre and post-transformation is more or less the same — with new terminologies inducted and everyone around cribbing that we have everything except the “agile mindset”. — What is mindset?

I am finding articles on both sides of the scrum debate amusing these days. The real challenge is Scrum has become a cult and there are those that attack the cult and those that defend the cult — both operating from their own biases and vested interests. — These two articles that are making rounds lately, one making some solid arguments against Agile (mainly Scrum) and the other vehemently pushing it back point by point, literally.

They are not doing much about the problems they already know. What’s the chance they will do anything about the issues Scrum will discover? — Let me start by saying I have nothing against Scrum. I advocate it many times and have found it extremely helpful in certain contexts and situations. However, quite often these days, especially on LinkedIn — I notice Scrum fanatics that are super sensitive to criticism around Scrum and literally fight…

Complexity is the fundamental reason why agile is so easy to understand, but hard to implement. A better appreciation of how complex systems work will go a long way in enabling change. — Complexity science is a scientific study of complex systems with many parts, such that the system's behaviour cannot be easily explained by describing or studying the interactions between the parts. …