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Category Archives: Management
Passed PMP
Whew, I just passed the PMP exam on my first try. I am glad I was able to achieve my goal.
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PMP
I have been a member of PMI® organization for a few years now and Just made the decision to take the PMP exam by end of this year. PMP is most popular industry recognized certification in the area of Project Management. Over the years, I have had to manage various areas of a project right […]
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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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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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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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Leading a volunteer organization
In smaller towns, there are not a lot of technical events or conferences and if you are interested in learning or meeting other people with a passion for technology you have to travel to larger cities. So I got really interested when I heard of a fledgling .net user group and wanted to support it. […]
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