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Is today's world all about creativity and ideation?

Are they the seeds to be nurtured to bring in automation, innovation and transformation.  There is a saying, necessity is the mother of invention. I would say, innovation is amalgamation of creativity and necessity.  We need to understand the ecosystem, to apply creativity and identify the ideas to bring in change. We need to be competent with changing ecosystem and think beyond the possible. What is the biggest challenge in doing this? "Unlearning and Learning", we think the current ecosystem is the best. Be it health, finserve, agriculture or mechanical domain, we need to emphasize with the stakeholders, to come up with the strategy to drive. The very evident example here is the quality of life is changing every millisecond. Few decades back the phone connection was limited to few, but today all the millennials are having a mobile phone. Now phone is not just a medium to talk, but are so powerful devices that an innovative solution can be developed on it....

Agile EVM for improved Project Tracking

Hello All, Currently IT industry is barraged with articles on Agile i.e., #BeLean. AGILE’s basic premise is to be lean yet measure and track matrices. #GOAGILE, #BEAGILE, #AGILITYLEADS and many more hashtags around #ONLYAGILE does not mean cut corners. Lean Engineering gurus have been teaching to go #AGILE and be #LEAN. Being Agile is to be nimble, to be able to adapt to the changing needs of company to achieve goals as to what is desired by business. We need Agility to achieve measurable parameters i.e., not just measure outcome but also Project management specific measure. What if I say we should not just track Velocity, Burn down and Burn up charts but also EVM. Agile Project Managers so called “Scrum Masters” most often keep calling “Scope is Dynamic Hence Agile”, “Do not know what will be the scope for couple of sprint down the lane and hence it is not possible to forecast outcome after 2 sprints”, “Do not know what will it take to deliver the complete full scope”. It is...

“Agile and DevOps” OR “Agile or DevOps”, Why?

Hello All,   Buzzwords for 2017 are “ Go Agile ” and “ Adopt DevOps ”, but for 2018 no surprise if corporate leaders call it “ Practice Agile Ops ” or “ Practice Agile Dev Ops ”. Biggest puzzle corporate decision makers are trying to solve is “Can an organization be Agile without Adopting DevOps?” or “Can DevOps be adopted without going Agile?”. There are quite a few books which are published on the same topic. Good to have these reads for individual library: True Agility from Agile+devops: Assuring Data Governance and Boosting Agility Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale High Velocity Itsm: Agile It Service Management for Rapid Change in a World of Devops, Lean It and Cloud Computing Agile Application Lifecycle Management: Using DevOps to Drive Process Improvement   Let us go back to 90’s and try to understand the journey of this change and need for this transformation. During early days of development when most of...