Hello, I’m Kapil.
I am a Tech Leader based in Germany, and my mission is to help organisations and people find their own answers and unleash their potential. Observance is where I share my thoughts, learnings, mistakes, and experiments. Essays is where I dive deeper into specific topics and ideas.
Some of my teammates jokingly accused me of "cheating" in our retrospectives because I arrive with my stickies already written and categorized. I was calmly sipping coffee, while they were racing to write stickies against a ticking clock. This post aims to explain why I do that.
Read essayDelivery pressure is not new to our industry, but sustained delivery pressure is. We are handling it poorly and it is having consequences, increased burnout, exploding tech debt and much more. Delivery pressure is not a problem that can be overcome with hard work alone; it is an analytical problem that requires strategy and meaningful change. In this post, I will cover some common anti-patterns I have seen and some hints on where to start looking, with deeper dives in following blog posts
Read essayMy newest adventure came with lots of changes: from working in an enterprise-y setup to joining a startup, from leading a globally distributed setup of almost 200 people to being one of the 4 devs, and from dabbling in AI-assisted tools and the agentic ecosystem to being at the bleeding edge of it. This blog post records my impressions from the first two weeks of this adventure.
Read essayDespite sustained & substantial investments in agile transformation, many teams are struggling to transform. This is an opinion post pondering if scaling the supply of skilled agilist is the reason.
Read essayWe are told to make our work visible & negotiate on scope. Many teams struggle with making their scope negotiable, either by showing too little, thus making negotiations hard. Or show too much, leading to meandering discussions. This post gives some practical tips
Read essayStory Points were invented to ease the pain of estimates, are they still being used as they were designed?
Read essayHealthy teams are rarely satisfied with status quo, they tinker & they improve. However, there are many ways it can go wrong!
Read essayInnovate or Die, that seems to be the mantra for running a successful business in today's world. But how do you do that?
Read essayI learnt a lot about team work, dynamics, personalities by playing CS:GO, a video game. These helped me immensely in my career, I am passing this knowledge along.
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