This blog explores why traditional project management methods fall short in AI initiatives and how adopting an Agile mindset can significantly enhance AI success.

Don’t let poor Product Ownership cost your business valuable time, money, and talent. In this post from PST Sanjay Saini, he explains why your teams—and your bottom line—will thank you for training your PO.

This blog continues the earlier blog series on Empathetic Leadership. Empathy is a powerful leadership trait, but being an empathetic leader isn't always easy or appreciated. Here are some soft truths and hard facts that empathetic leaders often face.

While empathy is a critical leadership skill, many leaders struggle to practice it consistently. Several psychological, organizational, and systemic barriers make it difficult for leaders to be truly empathetic toward their teams.

Empathy in leadership may seem intangible, but its return on investment (ROI) is measurable through its profound impact on individuals, teams, and organizational performance. By fostering trust, improving communication, and creating a psychologically safe environment, empathetic leadership drives tangible benefits.

Start-up Agility describes the mental disposition within which leaders can learn to swim through uncertainty, build their teams in ebbs and flows, and deliver value at every growth point. By fostering connections, empowering teams, and remaining flexible, agile leaders set up the engagement for sustainable success. Let’s discuss how Agile leadership can revolutionise your Start-up. Leave a comment on your thoughts, or contact us for more stimulation!

For a Scrum Team to gain autonomy, they must first show they are trustworthy. And how do you build that trust? By making your work visible. By embracing transparency, Scrum Teams can take greater control over their work and deliver even more value to their stakeholders and organizations.

Crafting a compelling product vision is an essential step in guiding your product’s development and inspiring your team. Using the right tools and techniques, you can create a clear, customer-focused, and emotionally resonant vision. Remember, a good product vision defines where you’re going and inspires others to join you on the journey.

If the Price is correct, the market is yours! Discover the secret behind effective pricing strategies in my latest article on Product Pricing Models.

The Product Goal serves as a compass that directs the team's work and facilitates and fosters a shared understanding among all stakeholders. By dispelling common misconceptions and embracing the product goal's true characteristics, Scrum teams can ensure that their efforts are focused, strategic, and aligned with the overall product vision.

The Increment serves as a measure of progress and a foundation for continuous improvement, helping teams to remain focused and adaptive in a dynamic environment. By dispelling common misconceptions and embracing the true characteristics of the Increment, Scrum teams can ensure that each sprint delivers tangible value and aligns with the overall product goals.

By dispelling common misconceptions and embracing the Sprint Backlog's true nature, teams can enhance responsiveness and work cohesively towards their goal. The Sprint Backlog is a powerful guide that, when used correctly, ensures that the team remains focused, adaptable, and aligned with the overall objectives.

Understanding the true nature of the Product Backlog is essential for the success of Scrum and the delivery of value to stakeholders. By dispelling common misconceptions and embracing this knowledge, teams can enhance their responsiveness, prioritize effectively, and deliver maximum value to their customers.

Understanding the role of Stakeholders in Scrum is essential for the success of any product. By dispelling common misconceptions and embracing the true nature of Stakeholder involvement, teams can foster more effective collaboration, improve decision-making, and deliver products that truly meet user needs and business goals.

Understanding the true role of the Product Owner is crucial for the success of Scrum teams and products. The Product Owner is not a traditional manager or a taskmaster but a value maximizer, visionary, collaborator, and customer advocate. By dispelling these misconceptions and embracing the true nature of the Product Owner, teams can foster a more effective and productive environment for product development.

Understanding the Scrum Master's true accountability is crucial for the team's success. By dispelling these misconceptions and embracing the Scrum Master's true nature, teams can foster a more supportive and effective environment for product development.

Organizations can foster a more productive, innovative, and responsive work environment by recognizing what a Scrum Team is Not and embracing what it truly is. What kind of Scrum Team do you have? Pick your favorite from the list.

In the ever-evolving landscape of project management, Scrum has emerged as one of the most popular frameworks for Agile development. Despite its widespread adoption, many misconceptions exist about what Scrum truly entails. Understanding the essence of Scrum is crucial for teams and organizations to harness its full potential and achieve their goals efficiently.

Despite its widespread adoption, Agile is often misunderstood and misapplied. Many still hold onto traditional project management views, leading to confusion and ineffective implementation of Agile practices. To truly harness the power of Agile, it's essential to understand what Agile is not and what Agile is. Find out more about what Agile is and is not in this post from Sanjay Saini.

Estimating is more than just numbers and techniques. It's about understanding human psychology, which influences our decisions!

Does your facilitation support Diversity and Inclusion? Discover how diversity and inclusion can transform your team dynamics and drive success. Unlock the benefits of diverse perspectives and improve team morale.

Is Your Data Telling You Everything? It could with Tree Mapping. Discover how this simple visual tool revolutionized your Product Backlog Management.

Are you struggling with Scrum and want to integrate Kanban? Do not do that; you will struggle more.

Are you a Scrum Master Or a Product Owner? How is it going? Read the blog to know the challenges and foundation of the Scrum Master and the Product Owner partnership.

Are You Aspiring to Be a Product Owner? Discover essential steps to craft your personal roadmap towards becoming a successful Product Owner in the Agile world.

If Scrum is a body, then these Values are the blood flowing through the body. Without these Values, Scrum is dead, it is Zombie Scrum.

Are you a new Product Owner? How is it going? Feeling excited or challenged? No worries—you are not alone. We have captured the five pitfalls most new Product Owners face and how to avoid them.

What do you do as a Product Owner? Do you see any change in your role in the past few years? Read the article and share your experience.

The question is no longer whether to adopt EBM, but how quickly you can do so. Leaders ready to make this pivot will find themselves well-equipped to lead their organizations toward sustainable growth and innovation.

Smart managers love EBM because it transforms the art of management into a science. The shift from "I think" to "I know" removes much of the guesswork associated with traditional management, allowing leaders to steer their teams with confidence and precision.

From Uncertain to Unstoppable: The EBM Journey Every Leader Needs to Embark On 🚀 Ready to transform your leadership with the power of EBM? Elevate your decision-making, shape the future, and lead with certainty. 🌟

EBM is especially relevant in industries characterized by rapid change and uncertainty, as it provides a structured yet flexible approach to making informed decisions and adapting strategies based on actual performance and emerging trends.

Let us embrace a language of business that reflects the dignity, respect, and value of every individual. In doing so, we not only enhance the well-being and productivity of our teams but also contribute to a more humane and just society.

Why organization and leaders should promote more of Product culture than the Project culture. Make a simple change - start using the word "Product" instead of "Project." in your day-to-day interaction, it will signal your brain differently, and you may start behaving in a more customer oriented, value, and outcome-focused manner.

Have you ever considered how a satisfying meal relates to effective Sprint Planning in Scrum? 🍽️📊 Eating on a full stomach is similar to achieving 100% capacity utilization in Sprint Planning; interestingly, neither is good.

Are you the reason your employees are leaving the organization? The Gallup study says 50% of employees leave their jobs to get away from their managers. No salary or benefits can compensate a bad manager. Do not be the person whom people curse. But what makes a manager 'bad', and how can this be transformed?

The 2020 version of Scrum Guide was released recently and everyone is talking about the changes been made in it and how it is going to impact their current ways of working as compared to its previous version.

When asked, “Who is the Servant-Leader in Scrum?”, the most common answer is: the Scrum Master.

The Scrum Values are like a compass guiding us on our journey of using Scrum, while exploring Scrum is a journey in itself....

Values drive behaviour. Therein lies the importance of the Scrum Values, for different people and roles involved in Scrum.

I am continuing my exploration of the value of the Scrum Values for different people and roles involved in Scrum. Having explored the Scrum Values from a Product Owner perspective , I want to now consider the Scrum Values from the Stakeholder’s perspective.

If Scrum was a body, then the Scrum values would be the blood flowing through the body.

There are many books and articles written differentiating between machines and people. An organization is a group of people.

In our professional world of software development, it is very common someone asking “What is this Agile?”

As a Scrum practitioner you may have read the famous paper The New New Product Development Game.

We all are going through a tough time – both socially and professionally. People have been asked to maintain distance to break the COVID-19 outbreak chain. Most of us have isolated ourselves for the past few weeks.

People may have talked about these things earlier and I would like to share my experience around it. This story is long dated back when I was working on a software product for a manufacturing domain client.

Flashback to 1995, Jeff and Ken had presented their paper at OOPSLA on Scrum. People recognizes it as one of the new ways of working. Fast forward to Feb 2001, no ski resort gathering and no Agile manifesto.

Yes, you read it right, it was really challenging for me, and may be other PSTs have the same or different experience. A couple of times I thought about quitting it but because of some or the other reasons I continued.

People in the Agile community must have heard or have came across this white paper multiple times.