Venkatesh Krishnamurthy

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Venkatesh Krishnamurthy comes with a rich and diverse expereince of designing and developing softwares since last 15 years. He has coached and conducted Agile teams across the globe. His hands on experience of coaching and mentoring are reflected in his articles and on his blog.He has been a speaker in many Agile conferences across the globe. He is a regular author columnist at Techwell.com. Contact him at [email protected] or via his blog, http://agileworld.blogspot.com

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Australia

Venkatesh Krishnamurthy

Venkatesh Krishnamurthy is an author, speaker and a coach. In his 15+ years of career in the software industry, he has played different roles as a developer, architect and an Agile coach.

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	Measuring the Business Value in Agile ProjectsVenkatesh Krishnamurthy looks at some key ways to measure the business value of your project's agile performance. With consideration to the Agile Manifesto, Krishnamurthy uncovers different approaches to getting the most out of your user stories and defining true value.
	Can You Build a Team through Team Games?Venkatesh Krishnamurthy asks: Can you build effective teams through games? Remember, team building is not a one-time thing—it is an ongoing exercise. It needs constant nourishment from the stakeholders and team members.
	Managing Risk in an Agile ProjectScrum does not have any specific risk management practices as compared to the PMBOK. However, everything you do in Scrum—as well as any other agile method—will help you identify risk at an early stage. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy explains how to manage risks in agile projects.
	Using Root Cause Analysis When Your Project FailsVenkatesh Krishnamurthy explains how root cause analysis (RCA) can be used to help your team members avoid personal conflicts and resentment when a project fails. Conducting an RCA session can help to divert attention from people to process improvement.
	The Secret Recipe for Scaling Agile ProjectsBased on his own experience in delivering a large-scale agile project, Venkatesh Krishnamurthy shares with us a secret recipe for scaling agile projects. Apart from team size, tailoring practices to accommodate scaling plays a key role for successful implementation.
	Tips for Coaching Agile Teams To succeed as an agile coach, you need to understand the skills and mastery that the position requires. Here, Venkatesh Krishnamurthy shares some tips that will help you coach an agile team. Remember, it has been found that successful leaders have creative traits rather than reactive ones.
	Why You Should Be Worried about Stress in Your WorkplaceVenkatesh Krishnamurthy writes that the stress and work expectations that led to Steve Ballmer's resignation from Microsoft are not uncommon in the IT world. The same pressure trickles down from the top to the delivery teams, spreading the negative effects throughout the company.
	Five Lessons to Help You Be a Better Team CoachVenkatesh Krishnamurthy shares his recent experience in joining a fitness program assisted by a personal trainer and how that relates to good team coaching. While the program benefited Venkatesh, he writes that his physical change occurred only with willingness and collaboration, not with force.
	Beware of Vanity MetricsMetrics like recording the number of website visits or the number of downloads are called vanity metrics. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy writes how these metrics are misleading and how companies should start measuring actionable metrics instead.
	Tools and Techniques to Help You Be an Efficient Product OwnerVenkatesh Krishnamurthy writes on tools and techniques product owners can use to do their jobs more efficiently. Remember, the product owner is responsible for building a valuable, usable, and feasible product.
	What Makes for a Healthy, Functioning Self-Organizing Team?Venkatesh Krishnamurthy explains what makes for a healthy, functioning self-organizing team. According to Venkatesh, a good leader who has servant-leadership qualities is essential for a self-organizing team—and having no one assigning the tasks or micromanaging the progress.
	What Team Members Get Wrong with RetrospectivesVenkatesh Krishnamurthy explains some common misconceptions with retrospectives. Having a rigid mindset and believing that teams should only do retrospectives at the end of an iteration or raise issues only during standup meetings reduce agility and result in process-oriented thinking.
	Lessons to Learn from AOL's Recent Firing DebacleA lot of people have heard of AOL, but they may not have known much about Tim Armstrong, the company’s CEO, until last week. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy explains the lessons to learn from Armstrong's public firing of an employee.
	How Metrics Distract Stakeholders on Agile Software Projects Metrics can be distractions to stakeholders from seeing true value in agile software projects. Stakeholders can gain more realistic insight by observing the intangibles—like accountability, transparency, and trust in teams—rather than just following the numbers on a software project dashboard.
	How the Complexity Theory Fits In with Management and Software Venkatesh Krishnamurthy explains that the complexity theory, based on the premise of non-linearity, involves the study of complex systems. Even though the complexity theory is not a new concept, people are still grappling to imbibe this into management and software development.
	Why Radical Innovation Is Dependent on People—Not ProcessRadical innovation is essential for survival in this century. But no one has been able to come up with a formula or a process to build innovative products like the iPhone or Google Glass. Why is this? Because innovation is a creative endeavor and is people dependent.
	Removing Waste in Software Projects When the government suddenly passes regulations that impact the development of a product, an organization's investments could suddenly turn to waste. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy explains how to deal with the waste as well as some methods to better handle inventories.
	How Waste Impacts Software DeliveryConstant delays at the Brisbane Airport in Australia cost airlines $75 million last year. This hefty cost is not adding any value to the airlines or to the passengers. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy relates this news of financial waste to what he sees as a software delivery coach.
	A Glimpse into the Future of Agile Software DevelopmentVenkatesh Krishnamurthy writes on the many different agile software development methodologies and what he sees in store for the future. Venkatesh believes that a new wave of agile approaches based on fundamentals taken from other industries will emerge.
	A Helpful Guide to Daily Standup Scrum Meetings The daily standup meeting is a critical element of scrum teams. Its simplicity and benefits have even attracted the attention of practitioners of waterfall development. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy presents a helpful guide to the daily standup meeting.
	Self-Organizing Teams and New York's Soda Size BanVenkatesh Krishnamurthy relates New York's unpopular soda size ban with the conflicts that arise from self-organizing teams. Michael Bloomberg (ScrumMaster) had good intentions to save lives by bringing this change; however, he didn’t get support from the citizens (self-organized team).
	What Is a True Agile Coach?Obtaining a Scrum or agile certification typically does not require that a person learn the fundamental differences between coaching, facilitation, and mentoring. This lack of understanding is reducing the quality of coaching to our customers.
	Why You Need Accountability in a Scrum Development TeamOften a developer who questions his team members and follows up with open-action items will be regarded as being rude. However, sometimes you need people to hold others accountable for their actions if you want your team to be successful.
	What the Boeing Dreamliner 787 Team Can Learn from Agile MethodsThe Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s grounding issue is currently the talk of the town. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy lists the issues surrounding Boeing's airplane problems and how agile methods could have benefited the company's development team.
	Should We Revisit Scrum's Product Owner Role?With so many business people betting their money on Scrum, do organizations have the right set of people lined up to deliver projects using a Scrum methodology? Venkatesh Krishnamurthy ponders whether or not we should revisit Scrum's product owner role.
	How Kanban Can Help You Be More ProductiveAlthough multi-tabbed browsers allow users to open multiple websites in one window, people might see their productivity fall by the wayside with information overload. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy explains how kanban can help you deal with the dilemma (and anxiety) of having too many browser tabs open.
	Does Agile Work with a Command and Control Leadership?With the popularity of agile methods, especially Scrum, the discussions around collaborative, command and control leadership (C2) styles have increased greatly. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy explains whether or not being agile clashes with the C2 style of leadership.
	A Brief History of Scrum Scrum has not been immune to controversy, and the history of how and who invented it is a topic of frequent debate. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy describes this popular framework's confusing origin story.
	Why You Need "Definition of Done" and "Definition of Ready" ListsA lot has been written about definition of ready (DOR) and definition of done (DOD) lists, but not a lot has been written about the lists’ importance. Having the right DOR checklist provides you confidence to begin a sprint, and the right DOD list improves a team’s credibility.
	The Differences between a Project Manager and a ScrumMasterIn the traditional model of software development, the project manager is responsible for project planning, estimating costs, and other tasks. However, with the popularity of Scrum and the role of the ScrumMaster, the project manager's responsibilities, although diluted, are not going away.
	Using a Scaled Agile Framework for Big Agile ProjectsAs the software debacles experienced by both the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Knight Capital Group show, large-scale projects can become large-scale problems. Using a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) helps steer these big projects in the right direction.