The journey from “Sure” to “No” to “Not now”

Charan/ April 18, 2012/ Agile/ 0 comments

Recently I was invited to a meeting where the discussion was how to implement Kanban within the team. During the course of the conversation I said, “… we need to start saying “No” more often…” A colleague smiled, “Coming from you, that’s quite a change” I consider customers to be the greatest assets an organization can have and have always

Read More

Making Kanban work in matrix organizations

Charan/ October 10, 2011/ Agile/ 3 comments

  “Having allocated developers to the project and ensuring that they knew what needed to be accomplished, I was feeling very good about the project. After all, we had commitments from the team. Over the next few days, however, I realized that the team was not able to work on my project at all. Other high priority work demanded their

Read More

No such thing as multitasking

Charan/ August 31, 2011/ Agile/ 4 comments

It was a perfect spring evening. Dinner was over, dishes done and the daughter tucked in for the night. A conversation with the wife ensues. Then the phone rings. Turns out the caller had the very answer we needed to put us out of our long distance calling miseries.  Grrr… Looking to resume the conversation after hanging up nosily we

Read More