In case you tend to lose focus, then, train your mind to go through 5 foundations of thinking: [01] 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹, sooner you will gain focus! …

In my career, as a lead, manager, coach and a mentor, I surely dealt with under-performance. and, yes, when I started my lecturing career back then in 2000, I was an under-performer — Now, 22 years later I am one of the highest paid speakers in the country — How…

A dependency is a potential impediment that can impact your delivery — Some dependencies can distract the teams and prevent them achieving their milestones — You may try to #avoid or #minimize dependencies, yet, they might not be fully avoidable. Let’s learn how to tackle them.

My team was made redundant 5 years ago — this included me too. I panicked about my future as I got a good salary as a manager and I was reluctant to let it go. This was when I could not sleep well [laughter] — with that uncomfortable feeling, I…

Growing as a poor kid, starting my career from the root level, struggling to master speaking, management and agile domains, I have learnt that there must be 4 things present in you — that is if you are eager to grow! Pillar 01: First thing first, Your belief system!

Most often, I see that agile retrospective discussions are dull, boring, energy wasting and at the end just a meeting that happens as a habit — I see people walk away with no absolute value and they often complain. If you talk to 9 out of 10 teams who do…

It was a tough day — I worked for a global company and I was a manager by then — It was announced that my development team will be made redundant sooner. …

Let’'s take a deeper dive into a specific scrum phenomenon called spillovers. If you’ve ever wondered what a spillover is, it’s a backlog item that doesn’t meet the Definition of Done (DoD). Basically it’s unfinished work, to put it in ordinary human language. If you are a Scrum Team member…

If something doesn’t add value, it’s a waste. Such activities distract your value delivery and therefore, I call them value killers! Yes, that is spot on — In lean thinking, that is the definition of wastes. Any activity that is not value adding is a waste. In other words, any activity that consumes your time, energy and resources but does not add any value, as perceived by the customer, is waste.