Just like the beginning of every scientific discovery, every decision and step we take at a startup is based on some hypotheses. Often it’s the founders’ belief that the product is needed in the market, but once you get over the initial discovery and launch, you get into the mode…

Most startups start as founders scratching their itch. With a bit of feedback from friends and family, we get a team together and start building. But 9 out of 10 startups fail within the first 2 years. Often this is because we build for too long after that first encouraging…

Continuous improvement is a phrase you hear all too often at businesses. From the CEO to the newest intern, everyone wants to improve their outputs, their sense of achievement, the bottom line, and the customer’s experience. So what makes for a continuous improvement environment? If you look at human development…

If you’re running a business or working for one, you must have heard about these things called Key Performance Indicators. Sometimes we go through extensive exercises to figure out the right KPIs, and have elaborate processes to follow up on them. …

Love it or hate it, roadmaps are a reality of any tech venture. Sales, Tech, Product Management, everyone creates roadmaps. But often the roadmaps go stale or reality decides to deviate from the roadmap and we forget about them. This is often the case when the roadmap is created looking…

This is part 3 of our Agile article series. Read part 1: The only problem with Agile and part 2: All about Agile Transformation. All articles can be read independently. Why are so many Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Engineers, Product/Project Managers unhappy? Why is it that one of the fastest…

Reflection is often defined as serious or focussed thought or consideration, as differentiated from mind-wandering and ruminating — both of which involve thinking but are more random or focussed but painful or circular. …

The Buddha said that nothing exists on its own and everything changes. His students called these the two core truths of all existence i.e. emptiness and impermanence. …

Imagine Socrates, Plato, Confucius, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius coming together and writing one single book that represents the combination of their philosophies. Now imagine a one-pager version of this book. How much of it could you comprehend, let alone practice? That’s the problem with Agile. …