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Agility of Quick Commerce
© https://similarpng.com It was in 2020 the quick delivery concept started getting attention in Indian metros. It is poised to grow more and more in terms of customer base. As per Business Standard Magazine, instant delivery market a.k.a quick commerce market is set to witness 15 times growth by 2025, with market size of nearly $5.5 bn. These B2C systems are predominantly managed through mobile app based systems. This is an external view into the agility aspects of these success stories from Information technology point of view. As part of Agile India Network Monthly Sessions, we explored some of the good practices in an open session,
Empathy-A must have ingredient for a Software Recipe
Today, all activities and people interactions are continuously getting enabled by the touch of the software in one or the other way. This is applicable for Government interfaces with citizens, within organisations or organisations to public. As more and more people depend on the software, Empathy has become a must have ingredient for a software to be successful and usable. Beyond the standard dictionary definition of Empathy, it implies many aspects for software industry , such as knowing what all types of users are going to use the software, in what scenarios they will be using the software, their work locations, environment, frame of mind, what will be their frame of reference while using the software etc etc. Apart from all engineering practices which continuously get improvised, empathy is a must have from inception to operations for software. So time to interleave models and practices that help to give empathetic views for developers more formally into Software Dev...
Roadmap for a Rainy Day
Every organization develop their vision and roadmap. Vision sets the inspiration and purpose for the organization. Roadmap is the tactical steps that helps to achieve the vision and it helps to communicate to internal and external stakeholders effectively. These elements are the forecast, represents the hope for tomorrow and creates positive outlook and confidence. But what an organization can do when all the business scenarios changes all of a sudden and environment becomes uncertain? This is an outline of probable steps….. A subset.. Only to create a discussion around what can be done differently to create a collaborative ecosystem and win-win models for uncertain environments
Digital Transformation and Technology
Digital Transformation and Technology Based on various industry research reports digital transformation market is expected to grow at compounded annual growth rate of 23% - that is to $3.3 trillion by 2025. Successful Digital transformation empowers employees, enables customers, creates new business models and increases the productivity of existing business models. A successful digital transformation helps to increase operational efficiency, reduce time to market and improve customer experience. As per Harvard Business Review article by Thomas H. Davenport and Thomas C. Redman, technology, data, process, and organizational change capability are four inter-related domains in digital transformation. Each of these domains get interconnected and transact with the contribution of right talent in place in each domain. Following is a listing of some the elements in technology that will have positive impact for a successful Digital transformation. 1. With the increa...
Transition Steps - Waterfall model to Agile(Scrum) model
Transition Steps - Waterfall model to Agile(Scrum) model Identify and orient the transformation program team Determine the program charter for transformation team Create Organizational Scrum guide Identify impacts from Organizational culture/values/management style Assess top down working style Bottom up engineering practices evaluation IT Infrastructure evaluation to meet Dev Ops needs and gap analysis Decision on pilot approach Vs Bing bang approach Communication plan for ‘Why change’ from Execs, Q&A with teams to the team Create change agents team Identify existing areas of ‘process waste’ and create plan to eliminate it Set transformation program obstacle handling mechanism Dev Ops and test automation investment plan Change management plan Identify the teams based on release dependencies, upcoming customer commitments, technology landscape etc. Review the program plan, approach, scrum guide and study findings with Exec team for project...