by Dhaval Panchal | Sep 30, 2018 | Scrum, Coaching, Home Page Feature, leadership
Here are Scrum Master stances. Although default stance for a scrum master is to be in service to their scrum team. Where in she is identifying and removing impediments to serve their team. By improving organizational systems so that impediments do not recur they serve...
by Dhaval Panchal | Sep 2, 2017 | Management
“The great leader is seen as servant first, and this simple fact is key to his greatness” – Robert K Greenleaf The servant-leader is servant first, and then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. This person is sharply different from one who aspires to...
by Dhaval Panchal | Jul 8, 2015 | Definition of Done, Home Page Feature, Tools & Artifacts
One of the first things we recommend new Agile teams establish a “Definition of Done”. A shared definition of “done” is crucial to highly functioning Agile Teams in helping them develop practices and behavior that drive quality, consistency and...
by Dhaval Panchal | Oct 22, 2014 | Home Page Feature, Systems Thinking, transformation, Waterfall
This is the last part in the series “Trapped in Wagile”. In the kick-off article I outlined three fundamental characteristics of waterfall organizations. In subsequent articles I explained Phase-Gates (part 2) and Large-batch handoffs (part 3). In this article:...
by Dhaval Panchal | Oct 15, 2014 | Systems Thinking, transformation, Waterfall
This is part three of the continuing series of articles. In the first article of this series, I outlined three fundamental characteristics of the waterfall system. In the previous article (part 2), I explained Phase gates and the unintended consequences when phase...