Ranjith Venkatesh @ Moss and Lichens: Recent Episodes
Ranjith Venkatesh
Scrum Master and Agile Coach sharing ideas on frameworks, training, workshops and coaching. Public speaker sharing ideas on impromptu, evaluation, speeches, moderation, stand-up comedy and storytelling.
Kural | Sweetness of Speech | 3/10Speaker: Ranjith VenkateshDescription: Sweet speech, flowing from the heart (uttered) with a cheerful countenance and a sweet look, is true virtue.Author: ThiruvalluvarBook: ThirukuralTranslator: W. H. Drew and John LazarusWant to become a speaker who shines with impromptu, speaking, evaluating and moderating skills?Have a look at the "Speaker Shine Series":
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Kural | Sweetness of Speech | 2/10Speaker: Ranjith VenkateshDescription: Sweet speech, with a cheerful countenance is better than a gift made with a joyous mind.Author: ThiruvalluvarBook: ThirukuralTranslator: W. H. Drew and John LazarusWant to become a speaker who shines with impromptu, speaking, evaluating and moderating skills?Have a look at the "Speaker Shine Series": Speaker Shine Series – Ranjith Venkatesh | Speaker Shine
Kural | Sweetness of Speech | 1/10Speaker: Ranjith VenkateshDescription: Reflecting of the sweetness of speech by bringing in elements of love, deceit and virtueAuthor: ThiruvalluvarBook: ThirukuralTranslator: W. H. Drew and John LazarusWant to become a speaker who shines with impromptu, speaking, evaluating and moderating skills?Have a look at the "Speaker Shine Series": https://ranjithvenkatesh.com/speaker-shine-series/
Are you a firefighter in your Scrum team?
Are Product Backlog Items being pushed on you?
Don't be a firefighter on your Scrum team, limit your work in progress and flow!
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Is your workflow visualized in a software tool online?
Try visualizing the workflow to a physical board with post-its and see how Developers take ownership!
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Is Quantity more important than Quality?
Throughput helps the Product Owner forecast the amount of value that can be delivered to the Stakeholders.
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Is a User story not being cared for?
Is a User story blocking the flow in the team?
A filter for Work Item Aging (eg: 5 days in a 1 month Sprint) helps the Developers and Product Owner pay attention to those user stories that are clogging up the flow.
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Our SLA called for 4 hours resolution time!
Our team managed to resolve with a cycle time of 2 hours!!
We were mighty proud :)
Do you know your team cycle time?
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Can you multitask and keep your Scrum Team and Product Owner happy?
Not always, especially when things are undone and nobody is happy.
A little bit of WIP to the rescue and get your Scrum Team to flow!
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Do you have a DoD in your Scrum Team?
Do you stick to your DoD come what may?
A simple DoD rule of a Development team I was part of was that every piece of code had to have unit tests with full test coverage.
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Would you play football without goals?
Fuzzy Sprint Goal: Enable the platform with social logins
Measurable Sprint Goal: Enable the platform with a Google account login
SMART criteria for a goal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Does a company run without a mission or vision?
Should a Scrum Team take the time to create a Product Goal together?
How does the Product Goal sets the direction for every single Product Backlog Item that is created and worked on!
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
CI for Developers
CD for DevOps
Continuous Improvement with the help of "Sprint Retrospectives"
Useful links:
https://www.funretrospectives.com/
https://miro.com/templates/retrospective/
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Is your Sprint Review a looooooong PowerPoint presentation?
How about balancing it with Live demos and a slide here and there?
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Planning the "WHAT" and the "HOW"
How we had a goal (WHAT) to upgrade 1000 users to a new version and managed to do it in Sprint by splitting it into well defined user stories(HOW)
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Just imagine, working on a long project over many years with no milestone!
Just imagine, working on a long project with multiple milestones in the form of Sprints (one month of less) delivering value and continuous feedback!!
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Have you attended a "Daily Scrum" once a week? I did.
Here is our journey which which took our "Daily Scrum" from once a week to once a day (right before lunch).
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
"You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries, they only asked one question after a man died, ‘Did he have passion?'" - Serendipity
How passion in a Product Owner can move mountains for a team!
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Developers climbing a mountain together with a plan, pivoting in-between and reaching the summit!
Developers mastering a Sprint together with a Sprint Backlog, pivoting in-between and reaching the Sprint Goal!
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
How do you feel when a project is stopped and it comes as a surprise?
What if the Stakeholder and Scrum team are open with each other?
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
A little respect goes a long way!
How the Scrum Master intervened and helped a team learn the value of respect.
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Thumbs up for the SMART Sprint GOAL!
Do you reassess your Sprint GOAL when the Scrum Team does not commit?
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Would you develop a feature that the customer does not need?
Showing courage and gaining the trust of the stakeholder.
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
How focussing on one task at a time makes a difference?
Learning to focus with Alphabets, Numbers and Roman numerals.
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Are you a chameleon ready to blend and adapt with the surroundings to stay safe? How does a thermostat maintain a cosy temperature in a room by adapting?
Do you like to be inspected?
What if inspection happens from within?
Combining my love for hiking and comparing it with Inspection.
Olly Opaque's journey to becoming Totally transparent.
A funny take on "Transparency" - a pillar of Scrum.
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/