A successful digital transformation requires harmony among Lean, Agile, and DevOps practices

Lean, Agile, and DevOps are all the rage right now. Unfortunately, many companies are succumbing to the cargo cult effect, and are trying to stuff as many buzz words as possible. The focus is heavily on technology as the silver bullet to realizing their strategy. Instead, I feel that we need to approach this with the lens of value generation and clarify what we are providing as value to the market or our customers.

Read more about how we can drive a successful digital transformation at http://bit.ly/2pqy4JQ

How pursuing a PhD helped me on my Agile Leadership journey

A colleague of mine was recently vocalizing about how people who go for doctoral studies are very academic in nature, and that they revolve around a hypothetical world with theories and constraints. Luckily, the focused learning techniques that I learnt from my Agile Coaching Bootcamp helped me to not get agitated with that conversation and allow my colleague to channel negative energy outward. After that interesting episode, I started to reflect on my personal journey and take stock of what I gained and learnt from my PhD, having gone through that ordeal myself.

Read more about it at http://bit.ly/2oToWxh

Cultural Transformations: Lean and Agile

Had an opportunity to talk at DatabaseUSA about Lean principles and an Agile mindset, and how they can drive an organization’s cultural transformation. Also talked about my theory around identifying the right change agents for this cultural transformation You can view my presentation slide at http://bit.ly/transformleanagile

How the Galactic Empire became an advocate of Lean Software Development principles

http://bit.ly/2hEVqZx talks about how the Galactic Empire (Star Wars) became an advocate of Lean Software Development principles. Follow Darth Vader on his journey of using Agile principles in overcoming an apparent lack of progress in a galaxy far far away!
Happy holidays, and may the force be with you!

 

Be A Builder, Not a Hero

I had a wonderful time at the University of Nebraska, Omaha with the Masters in Management Information Systems Students Organization (MISSO) along with my West Corporation colleagues, where we talked about our technical and cultural transformation. I had the opportunity to talk about our culture around complexity leadership and building leaders in my talk, “Be a Builder, Not a Hero“.

Identify the right change agents to drive cultural transformation

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My post, “Identify the right change agents to drive cultural transformation” outlines a powerful approach to choose the right people who can generate momentum and reduce the time of a successful cultural transformation. I also share some tips that I have employed in my transformations that have proven successful

2016 Husker Heroes

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I had an amazing time with my fellow West Corporation friends volunteering with the Autism Family Network for the 2016 Husker Heroes event held at the Memorial Stadium, University of Nebraska @ Lincoln.

It was heartwarming to see all the kids and elders come out on the field and have fun, interact with the athletes, and have a great time. These kids and the parents show a tremendous amount of determination and positivism in the face of adversity everyday, and kudos to them for their hard work.

Around 350 kids registered for the event, and the turnout was pretty good. Luckily the weather held up well and everyone had a good time.

Check out the dance moves that some of the folks broke out:

There is a news piece about this event here. Very proud to be a part of West Corporation who were one of the sponsors for this event.

Drive Cultural Transformation through Continuous Improvement

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My recent post “Drive Cultural Transformation Through Continuous Improvement” talks about how we can transform a Command and Control culture to Complexity Leadership through incremental changes, and what behaviors are critical to achieve this transformation through collaboration and Continuous Improvement.