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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalParamu Kurumathur He is an alumnus of IIT, Madras. He has been working in the international software services industry and global IT management since 1980. He has managed many international programs in his career in the software industry and an international NGO. He is currently an Author, Coach, and Principal Consultant at a well-known consultancy firm. His personal interests include the theory of software and software development, writing novels and technical books, studying and interpreting ancient Indian writings, writing limericks, traveling (he has traveled to around 40 countries), plaRead More...
Paramu Kurumathur
He is an alumnus of IIT, Madras. He has been working in the international software services industry and global IT management since 1980. He has managed many international programs in his career in the software industry and an international NGO. He is currently an Author, Coach, and Principal Consultant at a well-known consultancy firm. His personal interests include the theory of software and software development, writing novels and technical books, studying and interpreting ancient Indian writings, writing limericks, traveling (he has traveled to around 40 countries), playing the guitar, and promoting humor as a way of life.
J Veeraraaghavan (JV)
He has over 40 years of industry experience with rich and varied experience in leading quality initiatives, setting up and leading a global in-house development center, managing fixed-price projects, and training and consulting in the areas of Leadership Development, Business Excellence, Agile Transformation, and Project Management competency development. He has been a visiting faculty at IIM, Bangalore, in the areas of Software Product Engineering and Quantitative Software Management. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s in Industrial Management, both from IIT Madras. When not busy with his professional commitments, he enjoys playing bridge, listening to Carnatic music, and spiritual discourses.
S Sivaguru (Shiv)
He has been a seasoned IT professional since 1980 and has always had a flair to communicate and share his experience and perspectives. He has a knack for simplifying complex concepts and relating them to the audience context through his training and coaching interactions and his blogs and podcasts.As an excellence coach with PM Power Consulting, he has helped many individuals, teams, and organizations adopt good practices related to delivery excellence. While he has authored many papers and reviewed other writers’ books before they were published, and has many ideas to write books on, this is his first exercise in co-authoring with other established authors.
He is a voracious reader – of printed and online content – and likes to learn from everyone he is connected with and enjoys listening to music. He also finds time to be the honorary secretary of Dhwani Foundation, an NGO whose vision is to increase the credibility and vibrancy in the social sector.
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Achievements
This book beautifully bridges theory and practice to provide a comprehensive roadmap for organizations seeking to embrace agility. Drawing on real-world case studies and examples, the authors provide tangible steps leaders can take to engage employees, satisfy customers and position their company for long-term success in a complex world. From leadership styles to team empowerment and everything in between, this book offers practical guidance for driving agilit
This book beautifully bridges theory and practice to provide a comprehensive roadmap for organizations seeking to embrace agility. Drawing on real-world case studies and examples, the authors provide tangible steps leaders can take to engage employees, satisfy customers and position their company for long-term success in a complex world. From leadership styles to team empowerment and everything in between, this book offers practical guidance for driving agility at all levels of an organization. Leaders, coaches, and change agents will find invaluable wisdom and actionable insights in this must-read playbook for enterprise transformation.
Professor Bharat Bhasker, Director, IIM, Ahmedabad
I loved the holistic view of Enterprise Agility - customer, employee, market, HR system, process, innovation, stakeholder focus, waste, vision, Leadership role etc. The best part of this book is about the focus on business outcomes. My five-star rating goes for connecting practices & tools with outcomes, with real-world examples! I learned new perspectives on Enterprise Agility that I will bring in my next transformation journey. The way it is written in a storytelling format is a big differentiator!
Jayaprakash Prabhakar, Founder & CEO, Lean Wisdom
This book is a must-have, quick-reference-bible for managers on their Agile implementation journey. The large appendix at the end of the book will serve as a good reference toolkit for both project level and organization level managers and can serve as an introspective perspective provider.
M Thangarajan, Former COO, Tats Elxsi Limited
This book has distilled the experience of working professionals involved in Agile transformation and has been written in an easy-to-read style. While the stories in the book make it a light reading experience, the values from the tales and their linkage to the five values of Enterprise Agility detailed in the book make it a great learning experience with tips on how one can implement these values within their own workplace or organization
A highly recom
This book has distilled the experience of working professionals involved in Agile transformation and has been written in an easy-to-read style. While the stories in the book make it a light reading experience, the values from the tales and their linkage to the five values of Enterprise Agility detailed in the book make it a great learning experience with tips on how one can implement these values within their own workplace or organization
A highly recommended book for anyone contemplating on how to become Agile, and for others who are already on this path, how to stay Agile.
Vinod Sood, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Hughes Systique
The software community has, over the years, been adopting a series of process innovations in their quest for delivering predictable, high-quality software. Agile approaches are a recent innovation that are becoming widely adopted across the world. However, most organizations that have gone Agile, have realized that they are not getting the benefits they were expecting with Agile and are searching for answers. This book from PM Power could help them significantly as it provides the priceless wisdom of many of their coaches in helping organizations not only successfully transform at an enterprise level into an Agile way of working but in sustaining such initiatives over time.
Dr. A L Rao - Board Member - Trianz, EX COO- Wipro.
This book has distilled the experience of working professionals involved in Agile transformation and has been written in an easy-to-read style. While the stories in the book make it a light reading experience, the values from the tales and their linkage to the five values of Enterprise Agility detailed in the book make it a great learning experience with tips on how one can implement these values within their own workplace or organization
A highly recom
This book has distilled the experience of working professionals involved in Agile transformation and has been written in an easy-to-read style. While the stories in the book make it a light reading experience, the values from the tales and their linkage to the five values of Enterprise Agility detailed in the book make it a great learning experience with tips on how one can implement these values within their own workplace or organization
A highly recommended book for anyone contemplating on how to become Agile, and for others who are already on this path, how to stay Agile.
Vinod Sood, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Hughes Systique
The software community has, over the years, been adopting a series of process innovations in their quest for delivering predictable, high-quality software. Agile approaches are a recent innovation that are becoming widely adopted across the world. However, most organizations that have gone Agile, have realized that they are not getting the benefits they were expecting with Agile and are searching for answers. This book from PM Power could help them significantly as it provides the priceless wisdom of many of their coaches in helping organizations not only successfully transform at an enterprise level into an Agile way of working but in sustaining such initiatives over time.
Dr. A L Rao - Board Member - Trianz, EX COO- Wipro.
Overall, “Software Project Health: An Epic Retold,” certainly fulfils its promise. The core sections on engineering and execution excellence are particularly outstanding…
Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman, Happiest Minds Technologies
This book is a valuable contribution to the software project management literature. It addresses the need to fill the gap left by using metrics alone to manage a
Overall, “Software Project Health: An Epic Retold,” certainly fulfils its promise. The core sections on engineering and execution excellence are particularly outstanding…
Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman, Happiest Minds Technologies
This book is a valuable contribution to the software project management literature. It addresses the need to fill the gap left by using metrics alone to manage a project…
Prof.S.Sadagopan, Director, IIIT, Bangalore
The author has intelligently used the characters of the Mahabharata to lucidly narrate the concepts of Software Project Health. Integrating Customer Connect and Engaged Management is novel…
Krishna Prasad, Director and Country Manager, AS&UX Segment, Aptiv India
“Software Project Health – An Epic Retold” has great insights from a real practitioner’s on-the-ground experiences. A must- read in the era of digital disruption.
L.Ravichandran, President and Chief Operating Officer, TechMahindra
Complex concepts and recipes for lasting success in project management have been made very easy by this excellent compilation from PM Power practitioners.
Ramakrishnan Sudarshanam, Divisional VP – IT, United Breweries Ltd
An epic is retold. The actors are familiar, but the roles are different. Arjuna is tormented by doubts about his capability to deliver the Kurukshetra program in a competition against the Kauravas. Krishna coaches and mentors him, helping him overcome his self-doubt. To deliver his program, Arjuna aspires to ensure the sustained “health” of his projects as opposed to the Kauravas who are approaching the challenge ready to cut all corners for short-term success.
Arjuna and Krishna, with a focus on means and not just the ends, together evolve a project health framework for effective delivery, assurance of outcomes and robust products. This is the story of their fascinating journey of discovery interacting with project teams and stakeholders to develop new perspectives in managing projects. The end result is a comprehensive set of project Vital Signs and their manifestations and a 360-degree assessment approach – a framework for early warning to address the not-uncommon syndrome of projects being “in the pink of health till yesterday, but in Intensive Care today.”
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