Ranjith Venkatesh @ Moss and Lichens
By Ranjith Venkatesh
Public speaker sharing ideas on impromptu, evaluation, speeches, moderation, stand-up comedy and storytelling.
Ranjith Venkatesh @ Moss and LichensDec 11, 2023
Kural | Sweetness of Speech | 3/10
Kural | Sweetness of Speech | 3/10 Speaker: Ranjith Venkatesh Description: Sweet speech, flowing from the heart (uttered) with a cheerful countenance and a sweet look, is true virtue. Author: Thiruvalluvar Book: Thirukural Translator: W. H. Drew and John Lazarus Want to become a speaker who shines with impromptu, speaking, evaluating and moderating skills? Have a look at the "Speaker Shine Series":
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Kural | Sweetness of Speech | 2/10
Kural | Sweetness of Speech | 2/10 Speaker: Ranjith Venkatesh Description: Sweet speech, with a cheerful countenance is better than a gift made with a joyous mind. Author: Thiruvalluvar Book: Thirukural Translator: W. H. Drew and John Lazarus Want to become a speaker who shines with impromptu, speaking, evaluating and moderating skills? Have a look at the "Speaker Shine Series": Speaker Shine Series – Ranjith Venkatesh | Speaker Shine
Kural | Sweetness of Speech | 1/10
Kural | Sweetness of Speech | 1/10 Speaker: Ranjith Venkatesh Description: Reflecting of the sweetness of speech by bringing in elements of love, deceit and virtue Author: Thiruvalluvar Book: Thirukural Translator: W. H. Drew and John Lazarus Want to become a speaker who shines with impromptu, speaking, evaluating and moderating skills? Have a look at the "Speaker Shine Series": https://ranjithvenkatesh.com/speaker-shine-series/
Limit Work in Progress | Kanban Practice
Are you a firefighter in your Scrum team?
Are Product Backlog Items being pushed on you?
Don't be a firefighter on your Scrum team, limit your work in progress and flow!
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Visualize workflow | Kanban Practice
Is your workflow visualized in a software tool online?
Try visualizing the workflow to a physical board with post-its and see how Developers take ownership!
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Throughput | Kanban Flow Metric
Is Quantity more important than Quality?
Throughput helps the Product Owner forecast the amount of value that can be delivered to the Stakeholders.
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Work Item Aging | Kanban Flow Metric
Is a User story not being cared for?
Is a User story blocking the flow in the team?
A filter for Work Item Aging (eg: 5 days in a 1 month Sprint) helps the Developers and Product Owner pay attention to those user stories that are clogging up the flow.
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Cycle Time | Kanban Flow Metric
Our SLA called for 4 hours resolution time!
Our team managed to resolve with a cycle time of 2 hours!!
We were mighty proud :)
Do you know your team cycle time?
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Work in Progress | Kanban Flow Metric
Can you multitask and keep your Scrum Team and Product Owner happy?
Not always, especially when things are undone and nobody is happy.
A little bit of WIP to the rescue and get your Scrum Team to flow!
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Increment | Scrum Artifact
Do you have a DoD in your Scrum Team?
Do you stick to your DoD come what may?
A simple DoD rule of a Development team I was part of was that every piece of code had to have unit tests with full test coverage.
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Sprint Backlog | Scrum Artifact
Would you play football without goals?
Fuzzy Sprint Goal: Enable the platform with social logins
Measurable Sprint Goal: Enable the platform with a Google account login
SMART criteria for a goal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Product Backlog | Scrum Artifact
Does a company run without a mission or vision?
Should a Scrum Team take the time to create a Product Goal together?
How does the Product Goal sets the direction for every single Product Backlog Item that is created and worked on!
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Sprint Retrospective | Scrum Event
CI for Developers
CD for DevOps
Continuous Improvement with the help of "Sprint Retrospectives"
Useful links:
https://www.funretrospectives.com/
https://miro.com/templates/retrospective/
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Sprint Review | Scrum Event
Is your Sprint Review a looooooong PowerPoint presentation?
How about balancing it with Live demos and a slide here and there?
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Sprint Planning | Scrum Event
Planning the "WHAT" and the "HOW"
How we had a goal (WHAT) to upgrade 1000 users to a new version and managed to do it in Sprint by splitting it into well defined user stories(HOW)
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
The Sprint | Scrum Event
Just imagine, working on a long project over many years with no milestone!
Just imagine, working on a long project with multiple milestones in the form of Sprints (one month of less) delivering value and continuous feedback!!
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Daily Scrum | Scrum Event
Have you attended a "Daily Scrum" once a week? I did.
Here is our journey which which took our "Daily Scrum" from once a week to once a day (right before lunch).
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Product Owner | Scrum Role
"You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries, they only asked one question after a man died, ‘Did he have passion?'" - Serendipity
How passion in a Product Owner can move mountains for a team!
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Developers | Scrum Role
Developers climbing a mountain together with a plan, pivoting in-between and reaching the summit!
Developers mastering a Sprint together with a Sprint Backlog, pivoting in-between and reaching the Sprint Goal!
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Openness | Scrum Value
How do you feel when a project is stopped and it comes as a surprise?
What if the Stakeholder and Scrum team are open with each other?
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Respect | Scrum Value
A little respect goes a long way!
How the Scrum Master intervened and helped a team learn the value of respect.
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Commitment | Scrum Value
Thumbs up for the SMART Sprint GOAL!
Do you reassess your Sprint GOAL when the Scrum Team does not commit?
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Courage | Scrum Value
Would you develop a feature that the customer does not need?
Showing courage and gaining the trust of the stakeholder.
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Focus | Scrum Value
How focussing on one task at a time makes a difference?
Learning to focus with Alphabets, Numbers and Roman numerals.
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/
Adaptation | Pillar of Scrum
Are you a chameleon ready to blend and adapt with the surroundings to stay safe? How does a thermostat maintain a cosy temperature in a room by adapting?
Inspection | Pillar of Scrum
Do you like to be inspected?
What if inspection happens from within?
Combining my love for hiking and comparing it with Inspection.
Transparency | Pillar of Scrum
Olly Opaque's journey to becoming Totally transparent.
A funny take on "Transparency" - a pillar of Scrum.
Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh
Company: Moss and Lichens
Website: https://mossandlichens.com/
Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/