Mehmood
Human Side of a Transformation
If you are embarking on a large-scale Digital or Agile transformation, this is going to impact people. There is no doubt about that....
top of page
Mehmood
- 2 min
Customer Centricity
In the context of digital and agile transformation, we need to understand and articulate the what problem we are trying to solve. In...
Mehmood
- 1 min
The Golden Circle
According to Simon Sinek, an American author and motivational speaker, It doesn’t matter what you do, it matters why you do it? People...
Mehmood
- 1 min
Leading Agile & Digital Transformations
Successful Agile and Digital transformation can bring huge benefits to organisations. They can enable organisations to accelerate...
Mehmood
- 2 min
Story Mapping Workshop
This post provides a format for running a story mapping workshop with your team. A related post on story mapping describes this effective...
Mehmood
- 1 min
Leader-Follower Model
This posts describes the leader-follower model. The recommendation is to move away from the model towards leader-leader model in order to...
Mehmood
- 1 min
Leader-Leader Model
Leader-Leader model is inspired by Turn the Ship Around: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by David Marquet. In this model,...
Mehmood
- 1 min
Story Mapping
Story mapping is a simple yet effective technique to visualise the product backlog and product evolution though product development...
Mehmood
- 2 min
Lean Thinking
The core idea is to maximise customer value while minimising waste. Simply, lean means creating more value for customers with fewer...
Mehmood
- 1 min
Maximising Productivity
Focus on flow to maximise productivity. Here are 10 rules to assist with that: Work done is fruitless until value is delivered. Only the...
Mehmood
- 1 min
7 Powerful Habits for Leaders
This is a summary of the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. Independence Habit 1: Be Proactive Your life is a...
Mehmood
- 1 min
Pair Programming
Pair programming is an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together at one workstation. One, the driver,...
Mehmood
- 1 min
Active Listening
Active listening is a powerful technique and it requires a lot of practice and hard work. The benefit is that high quality of listening...
Mehmood
- 1 min
Capacity vs Throughput
All too often we equate free time with capacity. If we do that, we are not building in any slack to deal with interruptions or unexpected...
Mehmood
- 2 min
Conflict resolution
Conflicts often arise in teams, between colleagues, and in fact within ourselves. How could we deal with them more effectively? One...
Mehmood
- 1 min
What is Coaching?
International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as: Partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that...
Mehmood
- 1 min
Business Value
One of the key objectives in Agile product management and product development is to maximise business value. But what is business value?...
Mehmood
- 1 min
Power of Open Questions
The quality of our thinking depends on the quality of the questions we ask ourselves. Therefore by extension, the quality of thinking of...
Mehmood
- 2 min
Coaching in 1-2-1
Good leaders bring their coaching skills to enrich 1-2-1 conversations with members of their team. This includes active listening, asking...
Mehmood
- 1 min
Listening SUPERPOWER
Good listening is a critical skill for anyone especially leaders. This skill is often overlooked. Stephen Covey, the author of The 7...
bottom of page