In this personal and reflective episode of The Delia Network Podcast, Gehtsoft CEO Ivan Gekht shares a rarely heard side of his story—how growing up in a family business shaped his views on leadership, responsibility, and what it truly means to build something that lasts. This isn’t a
Lately, I’ve had this conversation with a few of my peers. With COVID-19 new reality setting in, many CEOs encounter a problem with making sure that people still feel connectedness and a sense of company culture while working from home. That is something that we experienced ourselves in the
Occasionally I become responsible for fixing dysfunctional teams on their way to agile. Often these teams are entirely misaligned with project and company goals and consistently failed to improve the process. Aligning goals and motivations is always a kind of negotiation inside the team, as well as between the team
Helping agile teams to improve, I often saw one problem, especially with the teams recently migrated from old-school methods, such as RUP. In these teams, product owners are the only team members proactively involved in backlog management. Such situation contradicts to the Scrum ideology and dramatically decreases the team performance.
FURPS is an acronym for requirements management, elaborated by Grady and Caswell decades ago. It stands for Functionality, Usability, Reliability, Performance, and Supportability. It helps to collect the complete set of requirements without overlooking essential non-functional needs and expectations of a customer and end-users. Many product owners and even whole
Lloyd Taylor of LinkedIn once said: “You can’t directly change the culture. But you can change behavior and behavior becomes culture“. My experience of SCRUM transformation of development teams proves that. Changing the ritual is the least resistance path and typically helps the developers to adapt to the changes
