Agile So Far – May
Yesterday we completed our 11th iteration, I’d like to say at this point that we are experts, that every plan is executed flawlessly, and that we are the very model of an Agile team. As I’m sitting here thinking about our postmortem today and mulling over the issues that arose this past iteration and all of … Continue reading
Agile So Far – August
We are now on our third iteration and I’m feeling far more confident about our ability to execute consistently but am going to stay focused here for at least another iteration to ensure we’ve captured as many issue type scenarios and contingency plans. All in all I feel like we’re doing pretty well. We’re hitting … Continue reading
August Goals
Leadership New Manager On Boarding Wow, I so hate that term! I’ve been kicking around an idea to help prepare people for a new management position. One of the things I hear often from new managers at my company is that they feel like they need to figure it out on their own, which isn’t … Continue reading
Tonecheck, Cupcakes And Reviews
One Thing I Learned That, despite the hype, women are not naturally more emotionally intelligent than men; I know right?! We really don’t have a one up there when it comes to managing our emotions or leading better. I was shocked to learn that this past week in Dan Goleman’s Working with Emotional Intelligence, he … Continue reading
Agile So Far
Agile is an umbrella term for a number of software development methodologies with a common set of principles. Basically it is a method that of managing projects that emphasize individual interactions collaboration and working software over and pretty much everything else. Earlier this year I decided to update our current rapid application development methodology by … Continue reading
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