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Sharing my happiness with all my well wishers! It has been 130 days that, “The Agilist’s Guidebook” has been introduced! I have received message from my publisher that 200 readers now own this book. 35 readers have distributed their valuable remarks in Amazon. Thanks for all love, trust, confidence offered to first-time author like me! I am grateful and blessed with your encouragement and appreciation. Pleasant learning and help self and others to learn and grow.

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It has been precisely 120 days that I have introduced my book and my companions are announcing me as a book creator. My companions are feeling proud of me and they got benefit because of the Agilist’s Guidebook. They started giving the Agilist’s Guidebook as a gift to their teammates. My publisher expressed there are 170 copies are in the hand of the book reader, they own those books. My 33 readers had parted their opinions about the Agilist's Guidebook. A humble appeal to 140 well-wishers who has own the Agilist's Guidebook to share their opinions so that others too can look at benefit from the book. We share and care our colleagues by guiding through our wisdom. Happy reading, writing and disseminating knowledge.

How the Agilist's book can help to crack job interview for Agile roles?

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Today I have accomplished my 400th LinkedIn Post. It was achievable because of the companions like you who are continually encouraging me to accomplish this milestone and strengthening me to continue further and achieve a pinnacle where we are supporting each other by eliciting different thinking and bringing into the prominence. Building a unique knowledge base for all of us. Let us keep supporting each other and grow strong, the sky is the limit!!!!

My 400th LinkedIn Post and Retrospection

When I glance back after having the figure 400, I pause for a moment, and retrospect and carry on for another 400!!

I have commenced my LinkedIn Post from July 21st, 2015.
Before that, I used to maintain my own website where I had 70 blogs.

Most of the significant blogs I have brought into LinkedIn.
All my LinkedIn Post was an image of the practice I was undertaking during that stage.

The challenges I was dealing with, the book I was studying, the experiment I was working out, the result I was having, all goes into the LinkedIn Post.

I have preserved and captured those into the LinkedIn posts.
My Manager used advised me in 2014 that if I want to compose a Book some day, the initial steps would be composing blogs. 

So I picked up that suggestion seriously and initiated the capturing my conclusions and understanding into blogs.

First LinkedIn post was on Applying DESIGN THINKING to get the RIGHT candidate for the team published on July 21st 2015. 

That point we were in a recruitment drive in ABB, so I was figuring out how can we achieve the assignment differently and as a result this blog was produced!

I was keep reading and writing and capturing my investigation.
All my Agile Transformation experience I had captured in LinkedIn Post what I have experience in ABB till November.

I was at 75th LinkedIn blogs when I had joined Societe Generale on November 9th, 2015.

The extensive exposure I got in SG in Agile Transformation because of the work I was dealing with was memorable.

Till September 3th 2018, I was with SG and written 325th Linked Post till last day.

I could not compose further last 3 months of SG days as I was publishing my book.

I picked up my best 300 blogs, 20+ Publications and compose the book. The Agilist’s Guidebook. 

All the pragmatic challenges I was experiencing , manifested in the book.

On the way to blogging, I picked up plenty feedback positive and unhealthy.

I could able to develop merely few points.

I have included 75 blogs as I have established my journey with a new company.

I had an ambition to achieve 500 when I had established my journey from 2015.

It takes roughly 10-15 hrs to accomplish a blog. To reach 400, I had invested 4000+ hrs.

I was invariably eager to discover use cases from the team with whom I am regularly working.

Trouble projects, challenging initiatives encouraged me and help me to compose blog significantly.

I consistently choose to get into those sections where subjects are extremely complex and business is in turmoil.

I felt positive when team members thanks me if I was able to transform their way of understanding.

While writing I observe, it is an extremely useful remedy for all to compose and If that is the writing encouraged a human being to obtain a bigger purpose. It was magnificent achievement.

I am on the journey to commence to compose my next book. I have not yet concluded the name or theme but it has to land into the market by 2019.

For certain by that moment my blogs calculation will be 600.

It took me 3 yrs 6 months to reach 400 LinkedIn Post.

So far I have skimmed through 800+ books, all these books pushed me to compose blogs. 

People wonder why I am always behind the numbers, my managers later used to tell me quantity never drives quality! But to me quantity drives my motivation. If I discard 50% of the blogs, rest 50% could be game changer blogs! I may be wrong!

What I have developed for myself.

Purpose: Share the research I am working out with all so that they can reuse a few of my discoveries and work out the obstacles. Together we construct a body of knowledge(BoK).

Vision: Let us share all our challenges and results associated with organization transformation.

Mission: Continue creating all the discoveries on a periodic basis to focus on these challenges and distribute knowledge with all.

Octo The Agile Coach!! A well known Agile Coach!

Want to meet ? ;-) Come to Mediterranean Sea , I am abundantly available there....I can help Organizational Agile Transformation!

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“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” – J.K. Rowling

Excellent Comment, touched my heart!

Nice to receive such remarks from readers. Thanks for your encouragement. I am certain you will be able carry out some of the concepts and reform your career. Let us support each other and establish an effective knowledge base. Thank you so much for your time.

It took 4 years to create my Book ( The Agilist's Guidebook)

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Book Review comments from Canada

Wonderful to get feedback from the reader based out in Canada.Thanks, Daria for your time and insight for the other readers. Your comment is valuable to me to improve for my next book. More and more readers share their views it supports all of us in the community to strengthen our knowledge and improvement. We share and care and learn from each other in a collaborative manner.

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My book reviews from Amazon France!! My friend Déprès Stéphane from France has procured the book and shared his remark after completing the book. I have picked up many details from Stéphane when I was working with him for 1 year.Stéphane is remarkably good at the organizational agile transformation. Very intelligent and an impressive sense of humor, always smiling. Thanks for your remarks and time spent to study my book.

How to move Elephant for Dance!

Switch, book written by Chip and Dan heath, tries to answer the question What makes the change so hard to accomplish?

The elephant: our emotional side
The rider: our rational side

The rider controls the elephant and seems to be the leader.
But the rider is small compares to the elephant that at any time can disagree and go another way.

If you want to change things, you have to appeal both the rider and the elephant.

The rider provides the planning and direction, and the elephant provides the energy.

Our emotions can overwhelm our rational thought, while relying solely on rational behavior can “overanalyze and over think things.”

What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.The book considers change at every level- individual, organizational, and societal. All change efforts usually have something in common: “For anything to change, someone has to start acting differently.”

What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

When a task feels too big, the elephant will resist.

The Elephant and Rider are usually on two different pages and trying to persuade the Elephant often exhaust your mind. The Elephant will usually win over the Rider.

The Rider part of our minds has many strengths.“The Rider is a thinker and a planner and can plot a course for a better future. But as we’ve seen, the Rider has a terrible weakness- the tendency to spin his wheels.

The Rider loves to contemplate and analyze, and, making matters worse, his analysis is almost always directed at problems rather than at bright spots.

Keep the Switch Going.

Few advice from the book for me to use.

1. I am not going overcome change issue by talking to the Rider. Instead I have to find the feeling elements. Need to find a feeling that will get the elephant moving.
2. I have to create empathy. I need to show the people problems with not changing
3. I need to find the bright spot that is invented here and clone it.
4. I need to create a destination post card. How to go from point A to point B. Give it to rider.Let rider use it.
5. I have to create a new habit. Habits are behavioral autopilot. Script the critical move.
6. I have to create a smooth path so that any unmotivated person can slide into it? Don't assume the new moves are obvious.
7. I have to shrink the change so that we can start today, if not today at least ensure it triggers tomorrow
8. Find a person from the team , who thinks it will work, create a free space for them where they can catalyze the change without facing direct opposition
9. How can I tweak the environment so that we are forced to change
10. Behavior is contagious , I need to find someone else who will be involve with me in this change process, so that he/she can reinforce each other.
11. Let me focus on building habits. Once we create habits, we get the new behavior
12. I have to keep motivate the Elephant by reminding how much they have already accomplished. Sense of progress is critical,because the Elephant in us is easily demoralized.
13. I have to teach the growth mindset( We will struggle, we will fail,we will be knocked down - but throughout, we will get better and we will succeed at the end)
14. What looks like Resistance, is often lack of clarity.
15. Do not speak to the rider when we should be speaking to the Elephant

This is as on 01-01-2019: 170 books own by the readers in 3.5 months....

After 105 days of " The Agilist‘s Guidebook" publication, The Agilist‘s guidebook owns by 170 readers!!! gratitude to all my readers, companions to embrace this manual. The evaluation on the book further shared by 27 readers! thanks for your time and encourage others to look into this book. I am indebted to all you enjoy this book…..

" If a man can write a better book or preach a better sermon the world will make a path to his door." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have worked with Ashwini for approximately 1 year for an Agile transformation project in a Product Infrastructure Development and management operations. She was a change agent and eager to embrace a new way of figuring out things. She was leading the transformation from the front and bring into many initiatives into transformation. Fortunate to get a comment from her. Thanks for your support.

Past Year Reviews (PYR), Have you done yours?

I have worked out something that Tim Ferriss has distributed with us, instead of addressing a BIG New Year’s resolutions.
He shared “past year reviews” (PYR) more informed, valuable, and actionable than half-blindly looking forward with broad resolutions.
In a notepad I have constructed two columns: POSITIVE and NEGATIVE.
I glanced into two columns: POSITIVE and NEGATIVE. For each week, I have jotted down on the pad any people or activities or commitments that triggered peak positive or negative emotions for that month. Put them in their respective columns.
I searched into the 2018, looked at my notepad list and ask, “What 20% of each column produced the most reliable or powerful peaks?”
I have been applying this below wheel for the last several years. Try to harmonize as much as feasible from this wheel. I have also applied this below wheel while capturing my notes.

I glanced into my Aha moments and recorded 15 points which I would like to pursue which has empowered me to become a better individual.

May be I will find some more points by 31st December!!!

I have meet with Sunil 3 months back; He has picked up my book approx 2 months ago.Very knowledge person, devoted a decent amount of time in the IT industry. We had many conversations, debate on coaching. He shared his thoughts from his real life experience. He has raised up to coach with two decades plus of his practice, he promptly associates the challenges at ground level(as he has devoted a good amount of time as hands on developer) and advises the team to achieve agility. Nice to receive comments about my books from the wise individual like Sunil.