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Corporate Kshetra - Episode 4 | Clarity

 

Team Pandav put the free time to good use by focusing on health, reskilling, networking and finding talent and onboarding them on to their would be team. They were determined to join back to GBC and show everyone their resilience as soon as the contractual hiatus period was over. However Duryo wasn’t going to make this easy for them since he had created quite a number of followers himself.

 Dhrit as usual turned a blind eye and it was again time to decide who will head the most coveted BU s of  GBC org. After being booted out of the company, Yudhi filed a law suit against Duryo for the position.  None of the out of court settlement efforts were entertained  by Duryo’s lawyers and finally an arbitration council decided that whoever demonstrates their effectiveness shall get the position. A multi billion dollar, multi year deal was for the take through an RFP and both teams were asked to prepare and present. Duryo had his entire current team including the mentors and coaches but team Pandav was short-staffed and were on their own. Vasudev who is the underdog’s friend took this as a challenge and decided to use this as his example of creating winning teams.

 

This was a client looking to do major transformation of their business and the execution of such massive transformation wasn’t child’s play. Each team needed to show that they knew what they were doing. Vasudev was the Agile Guru of his times and had the latest and greatest  execution principles. He mentored the Team Pandav as to how to get this deal. Arjun had major doubts about doing this in house flight to win a deal and was shaken with self doubt and anxiety in having to compete with his mentors.  That is when Vasudev revealed the real toolkit that he had in mind to win this Digital transformation war- Scaled Agile. He enlightened Arjun with the help of his starter kit to onboard teams onto Agile and revealed the Manifesto which talks about how trust, collaboration over contract, individuals over processes, responding to change as opposed to following a plan would be the differentiator for them to win this at scale. He reminded  Arjun the importance of being Biased for Action instead of being stuck with indecision to compete with his mentors and peers. He taught him to be customer obsessed and to have a backbone and Commit even if he disagreed with the means to the end goal. Vasudev was a master communicator and after the revelation of the Agile Way of Working,  Arjun cast aside his doubts and led his teams to work on the RFP. This was the first true revelation and application of the Manifesto. 

There was a 28 day prep for the RFP. Several team members from both teams quit since there was really no work life balance during the preparation. The group’s mentors and teachers had all gone away and retired. Arjun and team won the RFP and got the position back in GBC but they no longer had their best members and the client had gone bankrupt and was rethinking the deal.  

They continued with their tenure in GBC which was uneventful. They rebuilt their next layer and decided to retire  and embark on a spiritual journey. After a successful handover, the 6 Core LT members set out on a journey furthermore to figure out their “Why”.

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