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Java and Arabic Support
[THIS IS AN OLD ARTICLE, I republish for the sake of benefit to friends] Java uses Unicode as native encoding, so any text will be converted to Unicode for proper handling. Java already has support almost to all known encodings, see: http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html. Our involvement is how to adjust the input and the output; the Input will…
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Python Language
With Python, I write one quarter of the equivalent Java code !! Java code is a waste of life 🙂 I think the same applies for C# if not worser than java. Python is really a simple design and Agile programming language, IMHO. From ahm507.blogspot.com
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The Importance of Focus
Without focus you will be distracted in multiple activities that you will not be able to set targets or track your progress accurately. And even if you did, you will be slow, as your power is distracted in multiple directions. Slowness in a competitive and fast moving world is not an option. From ahm507.blogspot.com
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New Agile Meetup
15 Nov 2014 meetup. It was about Agile certifications and Agile adoption failure cases and how to avoid it. From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Explore Kanban Meetup
On 4 May, we had a wonderful meetup. The session was about Kanban. We all enjoyed the meetup. http://www.meetup.com/Agile-Cairo/events/178740502/ See and download the slides at: http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/34555233 From ahm507.blogspot.com
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The Agile Mindset Meetup
3 days ago, we had met in MeetupEgypt.com. The group was over 20 persons and it was well organized. Amr Noaman did an excellent presentation on Agile with nice videos that makes the concepts crystal clear. Here is the event URL: http://www.meetup.com/Agile-Egypt/events/178075402/ The meetup URL: http://www.meetup.com/Agile-Egypt/ Listening to a presentation: Prioritizing future topics collaboratively like…
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First Agile Cairo Meetup: How to Fail with Agile Methods
We did a meetup last week and it was really exciting. The count was small and hence it was like a round table discussion, which I really like. Here is a photo. I can not stop without mentioning Amr Elssamadisy and his great comments especially on SAFe and DAD methodologies. I recommend to everyone to…
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Tracking Organization in Scrum Teams
There is a difficulty tracking many Scrum teams in any typical organization. Although each Scrum team has its own work area with boards and charts, it is easier for managers to look at all teams and sprints in one place. In this article I will explain how we modeled and created a board that showed…
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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…