Week of 1st January, 2024

My Week

The week started as a lazy one after the holidays but ended with a RTE class. A good start to the year !!

Our Mentorship Programs are full and we will be starting the cohort soon in the second week of January 2024. Check the latest post here with your mentors. I will be joined with Satyajit Gantayat , Atulya Krishna Mishra on this.

Giving back to the community

When think of the learners / leaders and members of Agile community whom I was lucky enough to know, always thought about constructive ways to give back. I know there are a lot of ways, but what is easy, quick and efficient ? Multiple ways to connect !!

1. If you have a question for me, if you need or plan to give a suggestion, or just want to catch up, do it so here as a 15 minute free consult.
2. You can schedule a talk / meet-up with me or my esteemed colleagues at Agilemania. Look at this LinkedIn post to know more!
3. Mentorship program in different tracks !! The current cohort is full and we will be announcing the new batches in a couple of months. https://agilemania.com/agile-mentoring-program My mentoring sessions on Enterprise Agile Coach+ will start from 11th January and will be running for 15 Weeks.
4. I am planning to host the first of the recurring meet-up on 12th January 2024 Venue: Agilemania , No. 13, 1st Floor, Garuda BHIVE Workspace BTM Layout Time: 4 PM to 6 PM https://lnkd.in/ge3qpiMf
5. Started SPC and RTE cohort for the participants in my class. Intent is the create a like minded set of professionals sharing their expertise. Look for details here

Future

Look out for some exciting community building activities from Agilemania in the coming months. One thing in the backlog is #AskAshwinee. Let us meet on 12th January.

My mentoring sessions on Enterprise Agile Coach+ will start from 11th January and will be running for 15 Weeks.

Books I am reading

A slow month of book reading. I have to change this.

Offline / In-person classes means travel. More time for Audible !! I will leave the book names with no comments of mine. A book is always a treasure and not knowing before exploring is a positive.

The Creative Act: by Rick Rubin

There are 5 more books in the kitty and not enough time to listen. This is a good problem to have. A very good problem.

An Interesting Thought

Webinars and meetups, online or in-person? The ask is to meet, but the comfort of working and attending remotely overtakes the intent to meet. I might be biased, but seeing this pattern whenever we announce a meetup !!

A Wicked Problem and my Biased Opinion

Note : An opinion is already biased, and a bias is no more than an opinion

I am adding this section, which was a suggestion from my learners WhatsApp group (Yes, if you are part of my class you get to be part of this WhatsApp group). The ask was, "why not talk about a problem and a potential solution". I did add my spin of Wicked Problem and Biased Opinion. If you have one, do let me know and I will be happy to answer here.

Wicked Problem: Sessions with games/simulations or without ?

Regular Answer: Should be good as long as learners get what they want.

Biased Opinion: I don't like games in a session. I feel they dilute the theory / research we want to really learn. Rather than a game, can I get a real world implementation?

Scheduled Trainings

You can look at my Schedule here : https://agilemania.com/ashwinee-kalkura

Leading SAFe? - 13th and 14th January 2024 in South East Asia / India friendly hours online

SAFe? RTE - 19th to 21st January 2024 in South East Asia / India / Europe friendly hours online

Implementing SAFe? - 25th to 28th January 2024 in South East Asia / India friendly hours online

Implementing SAFe? - Planning for last of week of February in South East Asia/India friendly hours HYBRID with In-Person at Singapore. Watchout for the new announcement.

See you all soon, next week