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February 2010

Little Known Secrets of Performing Self-Retrospectives, The Agile Way!

February 14, 2010

If you have few years of experience in project management, most likely you have come across agile practices. You are conducting periodical retrospectives at the end of each iteration or release. For agile practices, such retrospectives act like a compass which guides you towards true north. In retrospectives, essentially you are inspecting what is expected [...]

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Are You Measured By Results Produced Or The Time Spent In The Office

February 6, 2010

You are considered an expert in your field and you have recently changed your employer for a good package. To produce great output in your expertise area, you need to spend only a few hours a day – you don’t need to come at a fixed time and go at a fixed time but your [...]

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Open Secret Of The Marriage Between Vision and Action

February 5, 2010

In my decennium long experience journey, I have seen organizations which have a great vision – a vision to become a world class company which is super-positive. 100% win-win for all the entities involved, performance centric, employee and society friendly, ultimate customer delight centric… the best! But with very little actions. Little actions lead to [...]

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Absolute Productivity Killer – Thousand Strict Regulations And Low Trust

February 3, 2010

Better if software services organizations have only a few simple and strong regulations for their people. Regulations are substitutes for faith…faith in your people’s goodwill, faith in their competence and faith in their commitment. The more the organizations doubt their people, the more rules and regulations they impose. Some organizations treat their software engineers like [...]

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