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Managing teams

Scrum teams are supposed to be self-managing and course correct as needed based on what is learnt from sprint retrospectives. The two leadership roles in scrum are those of the product owner who defines the work to which the team commits and you have the scrum master who mentors and coaches the team into becoming […]

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Should we switch to React?

We have been using Angular for a while now, but when ever another Javascript framework such as React comes along and acquires popularity then everyone gets interested particularly when there’s hype surrounding the new framework, and we’re about to switch from AngularJS to Angular 2. Of course a number of factors come into play while […]

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Motivating Teams

The most important part of being a team leader is to keep the team motivated, both at an individual and team level. It involves ensuring, Everyone is clear about what we are doing and more focused on the outcome then the effort involved. Identify any individual limiting beliefs and help eliminate them Constant communication/feedback Celebrate […]

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WPF/MVVM UX

I picked up a coding task, to add a feature to our WPF/MVVM based user interface for a legacy application. I’ve decided to use the Telerik RibbonBar control and as with any third party controls, you can run into issues and wrestle with it and support forums, to get the display to look just right. […]

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Completing stories…

As a scrum team, the intent is to complete all stories that are planned and committed for a sprint. The reality is though that not everything will get done for all kinds of reasons, to name a few, incorrect estimates, where in something turned to be a lot bigger than anticipated. Perhaps the stories were […]

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Agile Team leadership

Each Agile team has it’s own unique challenges, and it changes as the team evolves. One of our challenges to functioning as a cohesive coding team, has been the relative differences in coding skill levels between various team members. After observing and talking to the team, it occurs to me, the following measures in upcoming […]

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Agile Retrospective

Agile Retrospectives are important in building high-performance teams. The key part is that entire team needs to go in with an open mind for the purpose of learning and improving. As a scrum master/team lead, my role, was to get everyone engaged and participate. Having moved from years of waterfall to scrum, at our very […]

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Scrum Master

So I’ve been tapped to be Scrum Master/Team Manager for a newly formed scrum team. We are moving from Waterfall to Agile, so it is a big change for most of the developers here. There is both skepticism and trepidation on what the change will be mean. Scrum is an agile way to manage a […]

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Steve Jobs, RIP

Steve Jobs, RIP… we will miss you.

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Facebook

Everyone I know now is on Facebook, including people living in parts with no running water… ok, perhaps an over reaching statement. But just recently, a friend overseas with whom I’ve had long email and chat conversations, told me to check her Facebook updates instead…go figure.

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