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Showing posts with label Team Management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Team Management. Show all posts
Monday, August 17, 2020
Monday, March 23, 2020
Team Management
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How to manage teams remotely
Krishna
12:45:00 AM
With the whole world coming to a standstill due to corona, many responsible organisations have declared work from home for their employees. Unlike the challenge of managing projects across geography, this situation is unique, where each team member is working remotely from their homes and each...
Monday, July 17, 2017
Team Management
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How to manage org wide change while implementing Agile?
Krishna
1:39:00 AM
So you’re an Agile coach who has been hired to implement organisation wide agile. The organisation has also been hiring SMs & POs. You find that each of them bring their own baggage of agile
Watch this 2 minute video to know how to handle change and resolve conflicts in such situati...
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Agile,
Process Management,
Team Management
Monday, March 20, 2017
Team Management
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5 Traits to get the best from your (Agile) team
Krishna
11:03:00 PM
Whether you are a Manager or an Agile Scrum Master handling a team, here are 5 traits that can help you get the best from your team
...
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Team Management
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5 Tips to learn new things quickly
Krishna
10:22:00 PM
Whether one is in school or if one is a professional, the one thing that differentiates ordinary from the extraordinary is the capability for one to learn new things
In this video, I give you 5 tips which will help you learn new things faster
...
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Team Management
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Demonetisation: The case of the lone cashier
Krishna
10:29:00 PM
"It was a famous boat race between two arch rivals - Team A & Team B. Both teams had 6 people and had similar configuration boats
The whole town had gathered to see the ultimate race. Much to everyone's surprise, Team A won by a huge margin of more than 2 kms
Team B hired an expensive...
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Intriguing,
Team Management
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Team Management
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10 steps to convince your management for change
Krishna
1:59:00 PM
Do you have a bright idea that could change heaven & earth but you're wondering how to convince your superiors?
Here are 10 steps to convince your management for a #change - be it transitioning to #Agile or for a new product idea
...
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Agile,
Process Management,
Team Management
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Team Management
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Does more time at work improve productivity?
Krishna
11:09:00 PM
A rarity nowadays and I hope it remains a rarity, I was leaving office at 20:30 and I see this guy aimlessly looking into his laptop. Knowing him professionally, a person who didn't think much about pro-activeness; I was surprised to see him around at this time
"What're you doing at this time?",...
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Team Management
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Pay structure drives employee behaviour
Krishna
11:48:00 PM
If you haven't yet read Does Education throttle us off simple solutions, I urge you to read it in order to appreciate the intricacies of the current matter being discussed
So in continuation to the previous blog, our software professionals decide on continuing their spot audits through...
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Intriguing,
Team Management
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Team Management
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'I Only Care For Results' syndrome
Krishna
1:14:00 AM
"I don't care how you do it; I just care for results" she said proudly to her team, as if she had given them a magic wand to solve their problems!
I have been hearing this more often than I would like to admit from couple of senior members across the industry; be it Managerial or Technical role
This...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Team Management
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Does Education throttle us 'Off' Simple Solutions?
Krishna
12:19:00 AM
Here's a short interesting story of my colleague, her husband & their friends. As most software professionals, after years of toiling in front of laptops, null pointers & memory leaks, they too, like many others in their mid career, were bit by the Entrepreneur bug and decided to invest...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Team Management
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Faking Empathy
Krishna
9:43:00 PM
I was walking around the office cubicles looking for a team member, when the Manager of the team spotted me. He reckoned I was looking for someone and the friendly person that he is, asked me if he could help me
"I'm looking for Karthik"
"He sits here", he said pointing to an empty cubicle
"I...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Team Management
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A loose tongue can cost you dear
Krishna
10:40:00 PM
"I am surprised to see so many people, usually there are only a few in the first class, 2 or 3 scattered around in the second and just myself from the third", jokingly remarked the Professor
The seed was sown...
This weekend was the first contact session for our MS Program and there were...
Monday, July 15, 2013
Team Management
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Is being transparent with your team, putting your foot in your mouth?
Krishna
12:24:00 AM
Tired? Need a break? Take 4 days off in August and get 10 days off in a row... thanks to a long weekend and Independence Day
In all probability, majority of people taking off is high, considering the long weekend. A friend and colleague of mine had the same thoughts when she called for her team...
Monday, July 8, 2013
Team Management
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Burnout at work? Try Time-boxing
Krishna
11:59:00 PM
My friend who's in the retail business and I were discussing about our jobs. He is normally a very positive person but he seemed put-off. He was having issues with sales and was lamenting about businesses going down, economic slowdown, etc
He works 7 days a week from 9 AM to 10 PM - needless...
Monday, July 1, 2013
Team Management
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Is impatience becoming a virtue?
Krishna
11:17:00 PM
"I like a job where there are a lot of changes and travel across the globe", said a friend who was looking for an alternate career after his service in the military
"This is not the kind of work I signed up for. I like dynamism - solve a problem here, solve a problem there...", said a colleague...
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Team Management
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Don't ask me - It ain't my responsibility!
Krishna
3:05:00 PM
Last week, I had traveled to a holy place with my family. Usually the trip is planned just a few days in advance and we book accommodation in one of the local places. This time around, the trip was planned months in advance so as to avail the special tickets for darshan & accommodation from...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Team Management
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Are you an Excellent or a Mediocre Manager?
Krishna
11:27:00 PM
Since we were in the new facility our HR decided to have a small "snacks get together", last Friday. We were supposed to meet in the breakout area at 16.00 for the snacks. At 15.30 we got a mail informing us to arrive at 17.00
At 17.00, there was a short speech and we were requested to wait...
Monday, June 3, 2013
Team Management
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Choosing the Path of least resistance
Krishna
12:39:00 AM
The rewards and recognition committee was presenting the rewards and rewardee list to the Management Team for the final sign off. There was just a month to go for the big company annual event which was celebrated in a grand fashion year after year
As they were going through the rewardee list, they...
Monday, May 27, 2013
Team Management
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Does the needs of many outweigh the needs of the few?
Krishna
11:19:00 PM
A friend of mine posted this question "Does the needs of many outweigh the needs of a few?" What do you think?
Surprisingly I found many agreed that the needs of the many outweighs that of the few, in fact this was even associated to Rewards and Recognition system
Consider a situation where you...
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