RAJESH MATHUR’S BLOG
A blog about sensemaking, critical thinking and systems thinking. Read insights, views, observations, recommendations and techniques from my learning and experiences.
Agile team practices that showed us immediate results
There are times when culture and the practices that a team follows (or does not follow) start affecting their delivery work, primarily in Agile teams. Non-essential meetings, unplanned or unwanted catch-ups, feeling lack of safety that forces people to keep record of...
I didn’t know who Adam Gilchrist was and how that’s about career
You'll possibly find it funny that I didn't know that Adam Gilchrist was a famous cricketer (read the full story below). I had little interest in cricket and I hardly knew any Indian or Australian players except the most famous once. That created no problems for me...
How Management and Tech people fool themselves with Measurement
Are you obsessed with metrics and measurement? The software industry seems to have an obsession with metrics and measurement. We want to quantify everything. Once upon a time everything was about counting lines of code (KLOC). Managers ran around asking, “How many...
It’s not Agile that fails organisations. It’s the organisations that fail at agility
When organisations apply Agile methods and practices without changing culture and mindset, they fail and then blame the practices. This is what they should do.
Why innovation almost always results from unconventional methods
If you look closely, the process that Henry Ford used for devising Assembly Line (the process that introduced mass production to the world), was itself a Lean and Agile process. When Ford was working and competing with other niche car manufacturers, he...
Why improving culture can bring dramatic results
Culture of a workplace defines whether people there deliver results or not. This is why it is better to improve the environment people work in.
What are you scaling? Agility or complexity?
When executives, managers & even team members say that scaling Agile was about scaling the usage of practices (& tools) to more teams and departments, what do they really mean? Or, do they know what they were talking about? Scaling agility is about increasing...
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I follow your post and blogs and I must say they are very practical, direct to the context and insightful. I always make notes and try to implement to improve at a personal and professional level. Keep inspiring us and keep writing good and useful stuff, Rajesh.
About me
Hi , my name is Rajesh Mathur. I am a consultant, coach and facilitator with extensive experience in sensemaking, delivery, software development, testing and Agile practices that I have been living for over 24 years now. Read more