mindmaps to change mindset

© 2016 Chandan Lal Patary

About the author: I am doing Research on Organization Development and Sustenance. I am a Practitioner and I am capturing my analysis and sharing my observation through my Writing. My focus areas are Operation Excellence, Innovation, Strategy, Execution excellence and correlation with People Leadership and impact of all these into Organizational growth. I am currently working as agile coach. I have nearly two decades of deep experience in developing

software products across various domains and has successfully executed many Projects. I have worked on product development for domain like Healthcare, Aerospace, Building automation, Power automation, Industrial Automaton under real time mission critical product development to large scale application development. I am having near to two decade of industry experience. I am a certified PMP from 2008, Green Belt certified holder from 2005. I am an agile practioner and Certified Scrum Master from 2011. I completed Bachelor’s from National Institute of Technology (National Institute of Technology –Agartala, Tripura) in Electrical Engineering-1998. I have completed one year Executive General Management program from Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore, Karnataka in 2007. I was the Speaker at PMPC -2013 conference PMI-Bangalore, on “Organizational Survival know-how in Transforming Era” I was the Speaker at Agile in Business – Conference-2013, Bangalore, on “Effective usages of Metrics for Agile project”, Received Star speaker recognition. I was the Speaker at ICSE conference-2013, Bangalore, on “Software Effort Estimation -Industrial Product development” I was the Speaker at India Testing week -2013 Bangalore, on “Challenges with Agile testing process and How to debug and troubleshoot these Challenges” I was the speaker for 14th Annual International Software Testing Conference 2014 (STC 2014) scheduled for December 4th - 5th, 2014 in Bangalore and many more. I am sharing all my learnings and know-hows through these book. I can be reachable through email/LinkedIn: [email protected]

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Preface: Business transformation is crucial for any organization. There are several factors which influences efficient transformation process. Be it a people, process, technology or domain. This book is the collections of various mind maps in different facet of organization growth to do excellent execution specially software product development areas. This book is the outcome of several years of my research in software product development.

This book pursues an ambitious goal: it attempts to provide answers to the questions on various angle of transformation issues and how to become excellent in software product development. It highlights challenges organization and team members are facing. All the mind maps are collections from real life situation and learning while becoming excellent in transformation process under various software product development context.

At the end all these concepts can help any organization and team to run the software product development much more efficient way. By understanding all these practices systematically any team can become more mature and deliver value.

Increase speed of product development Align individual and corporate objectives Create a culture driven by performance Increase shareholder value creation Achieve stable and consistent communication of performance at all levels Enhance individual development and quality of life

All these steps are part of the team journey to maturing the process and it will transform an organization which will be a natural slow process. Persistence is the key with frequent inspection and adaptation about the progress.

All these concepts have applied into our environment and achieved benefit, same thing has to experiment and check for the benefit in individual context.

CHANDAN LAL PATARY MINDMAPS TO CHANGE MINDSETS

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All these factors are captured in Mind map to think beyond

1) What are the Business Growth enablers and Drivers? 2) What are the various Business Influencing factors? 3) How to design Value Proposition? 4) What Scrum Masters can do? 5) What Leaders can do for Business? 6) What can be Entrepreneur Mindset? 7) How to provide sticky Presentation? 8) How good user story looks like? 9) How Excuse mindset attitude looks like? 10) What are the various Design thinking tools? 11) How to apply Design thinking in Testing? 12) What are the parts of Acceptance Driven Testing? 13) How to survive in Testing Industry? 14) What are the practices of Agility? 15) What is Agile Testing? 16) Issues with Agile Testing? 17) Why to use Lean? 18) What are the styles of conventional Leadership? 19) What are the characteristics of Complex Adaptive System? 20) How to build Successful Product? 21) What are the various Product development issues? 22) How to use design thinking in Product development? 23) How to design Value Based delivery? 24) What are the challenges for an agile coach? 25) What are the various tasks for an agile coach? 26) How Lean Test engineers think? 27) What are the factors for Lean Mindset? 28) How to reduce Cycle time? 29) Characteristics of Plan driven Development? 30) How to design customer Value generation? 31) How to become a good consultant? 32) What are the Juran’s Quality Principles? 33) How to do effective collaboration? 34) How to become rich? 35) How to minimize QA effort and reduce cost?


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36) How to use Gamification for Transformation? 37) What are the workshop facilitation skills? 38) Story telling techniques? 39) Backlog refinement steps? 40) Manager’s work in agile world? 41) Emergent leadership characteristics? 42) Cultural Intelligence? 43) Drivers for Agility for existence?

Why Mind Map? Mind Map is one of the best ways to capture our thoughts and bring them to life in visual form. Beyond just note-taking, though, mind maps can help us to become more creative, remember more, and solve problems more effectively. A mind map is basically a diagram that connects information around a central subject.

What is Mindset?

A mindset is a set of assumptions, methods, or notations held by one or more people or groups of people that is so established that it creates a powerful incentive within these people or groups to continue to adopt or accept prior behaviors, choices, or tools.

By using various mind map let us explore how to we enable others to move from fixed mindset to growth mindsets.

Next few pages have various mind maps which captures as a various organization transformational challenges which all of us faces and how should we handle all these.


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