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Name Writing Exercise
It is amazing how much multitasking affect productivity negatively. Last week I did “Name Writing Exercise” as part of a Kanban session and the result is: A productivity of 300%, (3:52 divided by 1:17) While the management think keeping the team busy and overloaded doing multitasks will lead to effective team utilization, the truth is…
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Yet Another $163B Waterfall Disaster
Regarding Sutherland new post at his blog about Yet Another $163B Waterfall Disaster I wonder is this huge failure a norm in US? Anyway, of course no one on earth currently funding projects that huge like that and it seems the level of complexity is something over my imagination 🙂 From ahm507.blogspot.com
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The Scrum Guide in Arabic. Nice Translation
I just found the Arabic translation of Scrum Guide. It is interesting to look at. http://www.scrum.org/Portals/0/Documents/Scrum%20Guides/Scrum%20Guide%20-%20MA.pdf From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Colorful Sticky Notes
I like sticky notes. In the last scrum master course, we used colorful notes that made me even like it more. I even wonder, how can a team claim they are Agile or using Scrum without colorful sticky notes! Here are some of the pics. From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Agile Team Estimation Game, Make it Simple and Fun
From my experience in coaching Scrum for several teams, while we are doing release planning, I found a problem in two main parts, the first is in user story writing workshops, and the second is in sizing user stories. Both activities consume a lot of time and really exhausting. I think user story writing workshops…
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Finally a Certified Scrum Master
After about 1.5 years of working as a coach to help teams adopt Agile, Scrum and XP, I finally attended the Scrum Master course, took the exam and became a Certified Scrum Master. The course was organized by an Egyptian company called Digital Minds in Holiday Inn, it was well done and a nice exciting…
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Architecture Owner
Short sprints keep focus on delivering value. This is true but such as any project management framework a great focus os put on short term results. Who is going to care about design on the long term. The solution to this is to add Scott Ambler DAD role, the Architecture Owner, have a look at:…
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IT Strategy Template
IT Strategy Template What business outcomes must we support? [Selected after our analysis] What IT services will we offer to support these objectives? Who are our internal and external customers? [Strategically selected customers] What market spaces do we serve? [Based on our research…
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Layering Source Code
Development is started by writing monolithic applications, that all source code is intermixed in one set of code file as the following diagram: The first improvement was to think of layered code and separate the user interface code from all business logic below. As applications became much more complex, more layering is abstracted as following: From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Agile Manifesto Diagram
All of us know Agile Manifesto, but I like the following diagram that represent the it intuitively. See the full article at: http://agileconsulting.blogspot.com/2009/01/agile-over-rup-my-preferred-development.html From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Agile Technical Excellence Workshops
Now we are improving the Agile Technical Excellence workshops, generally we have the following workshops: Test Driven Development and Unit Test (2 days) with exercises in dotNet and Java. A CPP version is also exist. Continuous Integration (1 day) Lean Configuration Management (1 day) Refactoring (1 day) After each round of teaching we collect feedback…
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Test Driven Development and User Stories
In a presentation held to one of my companies I consulted, the overall cycle of TDD is not clear, I draw this diagram to explain the relation between story development and the TDD cycle. It helped the audience to grasp the idea easily. The other process is when dealing with bugs, for each bug follow…
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Online expense tracking tools
Online expense tracking tools www.texthog.com deserve evaluation, it has web and iphone versions. From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Quick Tip: Sync iPhone Notes With Google Sync: Apple «
Quick Tip: Sync iPhone Notes With Google Sync: Apple « From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Set Up Your Apple Device for Google Sync : Google Sync – Google Mobile Help
Set Up Your Apple Device for Google Sync : Google Sync – Google Mobile Help Sync emails, contacts and calendar. From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Saurik’s Letter to the US Copyright Office | Apple iPhone School
Saurik’s Letter to the US Copyright Office | Apple iPhone School From ahm507.blogspot.com
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How to Make Custom iPhone Ringtones for Free | eHow.com
How to Make Custom iPhone Ringtones for Free | eHow.com From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Rapid Application Development: Forget Burndown Use Burnup Charts
Agile projects traditionally use burndown charts to visually show work remaining over time. This could be for the current iteration or it could be for the duration of the project. Either way they can help managers (or the Project Owner in Scrum) track velocity, estimate either the project or iteration completion date, or find trends…
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Software Quality Engineer Certification – CSQE – ASQ
A credible Quality certification, Software Quality Engineer Certification (CSQE) See this link:Software Quality Engineer Certification – CSQE – ASQ To select a date: http://www.asq.org/certification/software-quality-engineer/dates.html Here is international chapters for exam preparations: http://www.asq.org/certification/locations/international/index.html Here is Egypt Examination center: http://www.asq.org/certification/locations/international/egypt.html Good Luck. From ahm507.blogspot.com
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ISTQB Foundation Level Course @ FCIS
ISTQB, International Software Testing Qualifications Board, Foundation Level course. Course Targets:1) Introduce the testing career option for this year graduates (4th year students)2) Spread the awareness of the testing field regardless what will the attendee’s career preference will be (or his current job is) to have a better understating of the role of their testers…