What happens if we share our individual professional goals with our colleagues? Setting goals for team members is one of the primary responsibilities of a people manager. From when I started my career as a team member until when I had become a people leader, we had always been coached…

Hint: You don’t need to agree with all of these but these practices helped us be more effective during the daily standup. And what did they say about standups if you are doing Agile delivery? For me, it is not a ritual that we ‘need’ to do but it is…

20 years ago, when I started my software career as a tester. Agile hadn’t taken off in a big way and waterfall was the de-facto delivery model. It was primarily the responsibility of the tester at the end of the delivery funnel to identify test cases, document and execute them…

Important lessons the leaders I have worked with, taught me. Dr. Maya Angelou, “People will forget what you’ve said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget the way you made them feel.” 2005. I was in Helsinki with two of my colleagues taking pictures at the…

Agile has been there for a while. Enough has been written about it. So, I won’t. On a Covid winter morning, I was enjoying my morning darjeeling tea in my favourite quiet corner. Didn’t realise when I had dozed off into a reflection of my 22 years of professional career…