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Hierarchical Amplification

Dhaval Panchal — Wed, 25 May 2011 18:07:15 +0000

Consider one of your peers or subordinates or juniors some one at the same level as yours or below. Lets name him Jerry.

Next time Jerry or some one like him/her requests for a non-trivial action from you, reflect on how your thinking, processes this ask.

It is my experience that I will often assess, [...]

Afternoon ScrumMaster

Dhaval Panchal — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:19:58 +0000

Context explains a lot of our behavior.

This is a most intriguing case, that I feel I can now retell. For much time has passed by and my metaphorical obfuscation will protect the innocent.

In the warm summer months of August, I was engaged to a client most ambitious in pursuit of [...]

Virtual Parkbench

Dhaval Panchal — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:11:02 +0000

For large distributed retrospectives, where participants in the retrospective are in different cities, I have created a variation of popular group discussion technique called as “Park Bench”.

Some Background: I was coaching within a large organization with different scrum teams distributed in three separate cities, Bellevue, WA; Chicago, IL and Waterloo, Canada. This organization had [...]