Certified Scrum Master(CSM), Professional Scrum Master(PSM1), Scaled Professional Scrum( SPS). 12 years of experience in Product Life Cycle and Agile methodologies on products. Agile Believer, Thought Leader, Passionate about agile implementation in new challenging environments. After working with big companies like Adobe, Samsung, and Dell for years, took route in the startup world and doing fun and challenging stuff. Started Implementing agile in startups and learned a lot during that journey.
Experience in Tech, Product Management and Program Management. Handling product portfolios, technical product feature delivery, adoption and go to market activities. Attended following conferences/meetup as speaker/Panelist
People and their mindset-Agile's transformation's most neglected aspect
We spend so much energy and effort in understanding popular frameworks( scrum, kanban, leSS, SaFe) , we study about these frameworks, spend so much money on getting certified and learn working on tools like Jira. But do we spend the same amount of effort to understand people with whom we are working, what’s their style of working, what challenges they face, are we good listener who can understand their issues ? Culture in which people work play a huge role in this transformation journey.During agile transformation, our focus gets so much on process and tools that we neglect people and mindset aspect.There are no training and coaching which can help in understanding people, their behavior and mindset. People resist change or new process even when they know it can help them, this again comes down to the mindset of people. If people will have a growth mindset and right attitude to try new things they will adopt processes easily and won’t push back, whereas on the other hand people with fixed mindset keep doing things they know and will not accept anything new.
It is very important to understand the mindset of leadership team before we start: It’s important to coach leadership to have a right mindset before we start working with people on process implementation. People’s context and experience levels in team also play a role. We all know processes are useful. They formalize things, documenting them make life easier for new people coming into your team, and keep things clear. But they aren’t more important than people. Lean principles that we follow focus on value stream and flow, like lean manufacturing system used by Toyota. But we are not building cars here, we build software which behave differently in different circumstances. We are not working with machines or resources here, we are working with people and smart people. One of the Agile principles says “ Individual and interactions” over process and tools. We focus on interactions and make sure people are communicating, it’s time to focus on individuals and their mindset too.
