Groom a Coach

These notes are based on Groom a Coach Workshop conducted by Satisha Venkataramaiah on 8th July, 2017. The workshop started by asking participants to introduce themselves and their perspective on coaching. Each participant was supposed to describe meaning of coaching and their first coaching experience. Once this was done Satisha described Balance Coaching as a way to elevate a person step by step to a convenient position where s/he can take decision himself/herself.

Steps of Balance Coaching

• Design Alliance
• Choose a Topic
• Exploring a Perspective
• Resonant Choice
• Actions - Brainstorming
• Commitment
• Accountability
• Inquiry
• Challenge

Having described this we got a practical demonstration of balance coaching on one of the volunteers. This helped us understand how this is done. Then during the hands-on session groups of 3 Players were formed. Each one got an opportunity to act as coach, client and observer.

Terms and conditions of the discussion:

• Ask Powerful questions
• AWGO: Articulate What's Going On
• Metaphors
• Develop Intuition (No solutions should be provided)

Conclusion: From this we can conclude that “Coaching is a step by step process to elevate a person from Low Energy to Positive Energy by using Emotions, Choices, Dreams and Experience.”

CMMI & Scrum Workshop......

We had recently been to an introductory session on CMMI and how it can be extended to Scrum, organised by Lean Pitch, Play Scrum, Chennai Community.

Our knowledgeable host Karrupiah, with nineteen years of experience and a CMMI auditor, had taken the time out to enlighten us on the topic. Learning is Karuppiah’s passion and he has also acquired wide range of globally recognized certifications.

After a warm greet & meet session, we regrouped based on longer duration of practicing scrum, experience - exposure to CMMI and agile enthusiasts.

First on the agenda was an interactive discussion about Capability Maturity Model (CMMI) and ISACA – the body owning the CMMI.

We were introduced to concept of Constellation in CMMI. Constellations are group of components that may be combined to form a body of knowledge. Below illustration displays the constellations that exist in CMMI model. 

The number of process applicable to a constellation have been called out in detail in the presentation and can be referenced from the same. 

An implementation of CMMI is called as institutionalization and take two forms as illustrated below: 

Each of these levels have specific process areas (22 – 24 in all) that can be broadly grouped into four major areas as shown below.

As we progressed, we discussed slides covering differences, challenges, and common failures for CMMI & Scrum.

Towards the end of the session, we did a hands-on session (team activity), to identify the applicable CMMI process area and corresponding Scrum Ceremony for a given list of practical project scenarios.

We were enlightened on CMMI concepts and how CMMI could be extended to Projects adopting a Scrum Methodology.

Looking forward for the next session of enlightenment.

Happy Learning!! 

Attitude Problem of Employees in Organization

This is based on the problem given during PlayScrum Practitioner's corner: How to help the attitude problem of employee in organization?

Facilitator: Kedar Vaidya

This is based on practitioner's discussion on above problem. Kedar Vaidya facilitated  this discussion and provided inputs to reach the root cause of the problem and directions to solve the problem. Below image depicts different reasons for having the attitude, why people behave so, problems that arise due to this and ways to fix the issues.