The Story of Evolution - The Thousand-year Journey from Waterfall to Agile
When in March 2006 - out of pure personal curiosity - I completed a two-day training and certification workshop as a Certified Scrum Master, the ...
Arman Kamran
About author
Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach, CIO and Chief Data Scientist
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
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 ...
The Platform Business Model and Moving from Products Sales to Services Offering
2022-05-01
12 min
Over the past 1.5 decades we have witnessed the rapid growth of the recent paradigm in customer engagement through allowing them to pay for what they ...
Intrapreneurship - The key survival factor for Enterprises
2022-05-01
6 min
Over the past 15 years, the accelerated disruption to the market from the rolling waves of the newly formed Digital-First entrepreneurships have woken ...
Innovation Ecosystems and Business Composability in a Post-Pandemic, War-Hit Decade
2022-03-01
8 min
Just as we thought the inflationary recovery of a post-pandemic world is going to be the headline for the rest of this decade, a war imposed on Europe ...
The Digital Decision Making Process for Digital Transformation
2022-03-01
7 min
As we step forward through this decade, the pandemic and the new war in Europe have already turned digital transformation into a necessity for surviva ...
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 ...
Customer Value Delivery through Anything-As-A-Service (XaaS)
2022-02-01
8 min
Over the past 15 years, as the internet connectivity – especially mobile – has become stronger and the phones and portable devices become ...
The Survival Art of Counter-Digital-Disruption
2022-02-01
13 min
In the 3rd decade of the 21st century we are already at the center of a hyper-disrupted global market where rolling waves of new digitally-d ...
When a timely “SCRIM” saves the day
2019-05-28
27 min
[SC-RI-M]: SCRUM RISK MANAGEMENT The Waterfallists (a term I have used to describe the hardcore followers of the old methods of managing work) h ...
Cloudification as the Agility booster for Value Streams
2022-01-01
20 min
We live in an era of accelerated digital disruption, where the aggregate effect of rolling waves of new market entrants have already pushed many incum ...
Metaverse and the Future of Customer Value Delivery
2022-01-01
19 min
The Internet as we know it, is coming to the end of its Web 2.0 era and is embracing the transition to the Web 3.0. Taking a step back, we can r ...
Combining the power of Scaled Agile and Cloud Centers of Excellence in Digital Transformation
2021-12-01
24 min
In today’s digitally-disrupted landscape, we are seeing an accelerated paradigm shift in all industry sectors, where both the incumbents and the ...
The Value Myth: Customer Centricity vs. Business Outcome
2021-12-01
14 min
The commercial software product development became popular at global level with the introduction of PCs (i.e., Personal Computers) in the 1980s and re ...
Navigating Enterprise Scaled Agility by OKR and KPIs
2021-11-01
17 min
“We cannot improve what we don’t measure!”, you have probably seen and heard a variety of versions of this quote, and it is essentia ...
7 tips from the trenches for Digital Transformation
2021-11-01
12 min
Digital Transformation is now a key differentiator and proven vital element of survival and future growth of enterprises in the 2020s. Scaled Agile De ...
Agile Value Delivery Optimization through Flow KPIs
2021-10-01
11 min
To succeed in an Enterprise Agile Transformation, and more importantly, to continue to maintain the achieved new state (Agile Value Delivery Optimizat ...
Enterprise Agility through Lean Portfolio Management
2021-10-01
10 min
Over the recent years, especially through the pandemic, we have witnessed an accelerated rise in market disruptions introduced by companies that barel ...
The Key Steps in Transformation of Enterprise Operating Models
2021-08-01
12 min
An enterprise’s operating model is the set of principles, guidelines, guardrails, processes, technologies, and mindsets that the organization pu ...
Optimizing Value Delivery Through DevOps Transformation
2021-08-01
9 min
In the current “Heavily Digitally Disrupted” market, where the tight race for delivering more business value in less time with ever-improv ...
How to be a better Digital Transformation Leader?
2021-07-01
9 min
The overwhelmingly digitally disrupted market landscape, that has accelerated its changing pattern during the pandemic-hit era and now is in the recov ...
VSM - The beating heart of the Digital Economy
2021-07-01
7 min
The core mission of any organization is to create and deliver value to the clients in order to create or enhance certain behavior in them. Private org ...
Augmented Innovation: Using AI to bring back Corporate Creativity
2021-06-01
7 min
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...