Augmented Innovation: Using AI to bring back Corporate Creativity
As we were starting the second decade of the 21st century, it had already become a growing concerning, that nearly half of innovative work that m ...
Arman Kamran
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Arman Kamran is an internationally recognized executive leader and enterprise transition coach in Scaled Agile Delivery of Customer-Centric Digital Products with over 20 years of experience in leading teams in private (Fortune 500) and public sectors in delivery of over $1 billion worth of solutions, through cultivating, coaching and training their in-house expertise on Lean/Agile/DevOps practices, leading them through their enterprise transformation, and raising the quality and predictability of their Product Delivery Pipelines.
Arman also serves as the Chief Technology Officer of Prima Recon Machine Intelligence, a global AI solutions software powerhouse with operations in US (Palo Alto, Silicon Valley), Canada (Toronto) and UK (Glasgow).
Arman's Articles
Smart KPIs for The Digital Economy
2021-06-01
8 min
The “do-or-die” mandate for Digital Transformation, has become the most important strategic decision for all enterprises, in every market ...
Agile Budgeting in the 2020s
2021-05-01
8 min
When we finished the second decade of the 21st century, the aggregate threat of the newly arrived digital-native market disruptors had alre ...
How to respond to Digital Disruptions?
2021-05-01
5 min
Congratulations! You just received your first torpedo to your flank and now your well established “incumbent” enterprise is in chaos from ...
The Rise of The Anti Agile
2021-04-01
9 min
When I started into the realm of Agile in 2006 by attending my first ever certificate training course in the field (Certified Scrum Master), the major ...
Using “ICH-GO, ICHI-E” in Executive Leadership
2021-04-01
6 min
“ICHI-GO, ICHI-E” is a Japanese phrase that points to the fact that we can live in any moment only once, so we should strive to use our hi ...
Top 10 Ways to Fail in Enterprise Agile Transformation
2021-03-01
9 min
As we all know, market research pioneers such as Deloitte, Gartner and McKinsey have been busy checking the pulse on Agile adoption by enter ...
Coaching Advice for the Agile Executive
2021-03-01
13 min
Over the past 15 years we have witnessed a growing presence of millions of small businesses (and start ups) surfing the waves of Digital Disruption an ...
How to Avoid the Enterprise Level Gaming of Agile Metrics
2021-01-01
9 min
Over the past couple of decades, the mindset of “Faking it, till making it” had become the motto of Start-ups and pioneering teams and a v ...
The Pandemic-Triggered Agile Paradigm Shift in “Co-location” of Teams
2020-12-01
12 min
The Covid-19 pandemic had – and still has – a profound impact on how we work.When the world noticed in March 2020 that this we are dealing ...
Top 10 Executive Considerations in Transforming into an Agile Enterprise
2020-12-25
8 min
Over the past 10 years, we have witnessed an accelerating rise in market disruptions introduced by companies that barely existed before that era. The ...
Remote Project Management and Teams
2020-03-31
7 min
At the time I am writing these sentences there is a dark satire changing hands in social media which looks like a questionnaire asking: Who led the d ...
Crisis Management in Project Management and Agile Delivery
2020-02-29
9 min
For as far as dawn of civilization, barely any major work had ever been completed, regardless of the approach used in managing the work and delivering ...
Emotional Intelligence in Project Management (by Arman)
2020-02-05
7 min
Humans, as the most prominent primates, are significantly emotional beings. When something deeply affects us, it triggers a variety of emotions in us ...
AI and Project Management
2019-12-31
10 min
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has always been a fascinating subject to humans. Picturing a machine capable of thinking independently and making decisio ...
Why do stakeholders sometimes resist in sharing information? (By Arman Kamran)
2019-11-30
9 min
The short answer to this old question is: For the same reason people hide information in any other scenario, which is “The fear of loss o ...
Managing yourself; a key for managing your project
2019-10-31
4 min
“The world outside is a reflection of the world inside” has been my belief for the past few decades. What goes inside our mind and mainta ...
Hybrid (Waterfall/Agile), A band-aid fix or an inevitable eco-system?
2019-09-30
18 min
The beginning Coming from a long track of project management since late 1990s to this date (the end of the second decade of 21st century), I had the ...
The Story of Evolution - The Thousand-year Journey from Waterfall to Agile
2019-07-31
13 min
When in March 2006 - out of pure personal curiosity - I completed a two-day training and certification workshop as a Certified Scrum Master, the ...
So your Sprint Reviews have turned into Garbage? ... here is how to step out of the dumpster!
2019-06-03
8 min
Sprint Reviews are held at the end of the Sprints for a few very specific and very important reasons, which if missed or perverted, would turn the ent ...
The Importance of Project Management Certifications (Arman)
2019-06-30
5 min
Certifications in Agile … Why is it worth the effort? Back in 2006, when – out of pure curiosity - I got my first ever certificate in Ag ...
When a timely “SCRIM” saves the day
2019-05-28
27 min
[SC-RI-M]: SCRUM RISK MANAGEMENTThe Waterfallists (a term I have used to describe the hardcore followers of the old methods of managing work) had ...
Coaching advice for Scrum Masters (Part 5): Trust is the Glue holding your practice together!
2019-04-13
6 min
A Coaching Scrum Master uses the strongest pulling energy in the world to keep the team and the entire coaching work together: Trust, But where does i ...