Agile 2010 – Part 1
Im Just thinking back 2 weeks, to refresh my memory in order to write something about Agile 2010. The longest waiting post in my blog so far:-) As I said before.. Lots of memories and lot to write...
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Selecting which session to go after lunch was much more challenging... Many known industry experts such as Martin Fowler, Mike Cohn, Johanna Rothman, Alistair Cockburn, Robot Martin and many others had...
View ArticleAgile 2010 -Part 3
Here we go about my 2nd day there. and bit of day 3 too..In the morning I wanted to attend to some of the agile game sessions..If you ask me why I attended to gaming sessions in such conference, I...
View ArticleAgile2010 - Part 4 - Why you suck at offshoring even with agile
Needless to say that this is the biggest challenge I faced so far in my career life.. To speak at agile 2010 conference for the 1st time.Everything sounded challenging form the day 1, first to be one...
View ArticleThe agile bird !
Its always a great experience to share knowledge with others. Today we had a mini workshop for some of the colleagues of Informatics and few of our new Exilesoft colleagues together to learn agile....
View ArticleLean concepts for the operations management - part 1
Right now we have managed to go agile with all our projects. When it comes to agile, we are quite keen on SCRUM as disciplines scrum brings to the project teams as well as to the customers help a lot...
View ArticleLean concepts for the operations management - part 2 – Why not scrum..?
Our first preference was to make a management tasks execution model based on Scrum... But definitely we have the following concerns when it comes to Scrum;1.Time boxing and sprints doesn’tworkWe cannot...
View ArticleLean concepts for the operations management - part 3 – Looking at KANBAN
Ok.. now you know what we need... we definitely need something more flexible..and something which works!. Looking at KANBAN, we found that it aligns with our thinking in most the areas we are concerned...
View ArticleLean concepts for the operations management - part 4 – How did we impliment it ?
I think now I have come to the first part of the most important chapter of the story… How did we implement it.?First of all I must mention that .. this whole thing is an experiment we do. (Didn’t you...
View ArticleLean concepts for the operations management - part 5 – HR KANBAN Board
Let’s talk about the HR KANBAN board. I explained the user stories which will go to the stack in my previous post. We all met on the 1st day, in front of the HR officeglass wall. We divided the wall in...
View ArticleJust a short update ...
I realized that its been a while and Ive not posted anything to the blog. Sorry for that, simply I was too tired to think or to write anything new due to many things happened lately.After Exilesoft...
View ArticleAgile Project Management (CSM / PMI Agile)
This 3-day intensive workshop provides instructions on the key areas necessary to take on the role of leading or participating in teams utilizing Scrum and Agile. The session will cover the Scrum...
View ArticleAgile 2011 – Salt Lake City
Back from agile 2o11, long flight back home and still I cannot sleep. I think I’m seriously jet lagged or tired. So I thought to write a small note on what I’ve experienced.I like the venue, the hotel...
View ArticleGraffiti by Geeks
This is taken from Exilesoft Lunch room. How creative our geeks can be? .. they can scribble when ever they want to..Paint buckets are placed there for them.. I love this office... But I wish none of...
View ArticleAfter Oredev 2011
Now in Stockholm, 2 AM in the morning, still jetlagged, thanks to hotel wifi and my MacBook I don’t feel lonely to death :)Last week was so technicolor and surrounded by hundreds of geeks and freaks....
View ArticleLean Coffee.
I first experienced Lean Coffee at Oredev 2011 in Malmo. I was introduced to Lean coffee by Jim Benson (Author of the famous book – Personal KANBAN). One morning we had Lean Coffee with some awesome...
View ArticleAgile India 2012
#agileindia2012 was a good experience and my first time to speak in an Asian conference. Arranging such a big conference is not an easy task, hats off to Naresh Jain and his crew for such a successful...
View ArticleSprint 0 (0th Sprint)
What is it?'Sprint 0' means the only sprint where we deliver 0 business value in scrum process.Recently I attended to a session @Exilesoft when Fincykatalked about 0th Sprint in projects and her team's...
View ArticleSoftware craftsmanship skills
When it comes to agile engineering practices, software craftsmanship skills are very important. Today, our engineering approaches with less documentation, team collaboration and incremental continuous...
View ArticleManaging an agile project portfolio. – Part 1
If your project office is growing with multiple agile projects, its important to have a picture about the different methods and models you use to run various projects across the organization. The days...
View ArticleManaging an agile project portfolio. – Part 2
My next focus area is the team model. Especially in the context of distributed software engineering, I have to work with many projects where there are distributed teams involved. So I try to capture...
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