Background noises, a dozen conversations, and coworkers gnashing on their lunch. The ring of someone’s phone every couple of minutes, an impromptu meeting being carried out that has nothing to do with me, and someone is talking louder and louder as they try to be heard. Someone tells […]
My guest blog post on making the best choices for your processes and tools. Originally published on tapscape.com In Agile, there is often an insistence on using low-tech and high-touch tools to collaborate and report on task statuses. While these tools may work, you shouldn’t limit your choices […]
66% Off Microsoft Excel Value Bundle My guest blog post on using Selenium Basic in Excel to automate web navigation, user text entry, and button clicking. Originally posted on The Hack Post. This is a more intermediate level tutorial on Excel Visual Basic, but a beginner tutorial for Selenium […]
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Familiar – Noun, a supernatural spirit or demon, often in the form of an animal, supposed to serve and aid a witch or other individual. Project managers frequently wish that they had a trusted right-hand person who could help them…
This tutorial is a little more complicated than the prior three tutorials. It takes what you have learned in those, combines them and adds some additional features. If you haven’t done the prior tutorials and know nothing about VBA, you may want to do those first. The tutorials […]
This is the third part of the Excel Visual Basic tutorial series. It is recommended that if you are new to VBA, you begin with Excel Visual Basic #1: Getting Started. You can view all available tutorials on the Excel VBA Tutorials page. Take a look at the image below: The […]
A communication plan, you should have one in place anyway. Whether your team is all in one building, room, or distributed; a plan to deal with how everyone communicates is critical to the success of your activities. We need rules in place that say your IT server administrator […]
MoSCoW prioritization (or the MoSCoW method) is a tool used in all sorts of professions and industries to provide a structure for prioritizing work tasks. It is most commonly associated with the Agile approach Dynamic Systems Development Methodology, which is where I learned it. The origins appear to be […]
Back in 2017 my wife and I purchased 12 acres of woodland in Northern New York state’s Adirondack mountains. The area is surrounded by woodland and state nature preserves, so the risk of encountering wild animals was definitely present and known. We, of course, researched, (or at least […]
This material (DSDM, Related Images, and Videos) was created by the Agile Business Consortium. https://agilebusiness.org Think of Agile like a toolbox. Within this Agile toolbox, you have several options. You may not know what all the tools are, how they function – half the time your self-proclaimed Agile experts […]
In this tutorial, we will cover the basics of variables and decision structures. Then we will create a more advanced version of the simple message box created in the first tutorial. If you are unsure how to access the developer tab within Excel, please see the first tutorial […]
Below you will find two videos. The purpose of these videos is to show you how to gain access to the VBA development capabilities of Excel and to show you how to create your first “Hello World” application inside of Excel. I also provide written steps in case […]
Let me start off by saying, Agile is not just for projects and not just for software development. Agile is NOT Scrum. Agile is also not a methodology or framework. Now that I have that out of the way, let us proceed with a, hopefully, clearer definition of […]
I first worked with and learned Lean (with Six Sigma) in a manufacturing environment. Manufacturing is where Lean originated; used successfully for decades. I learned a great deal about Lean in that environment, but I think the most important part about Lean- the focus it requires on quality. […]
Telecommuting may not be for all people. You are alone and you have to collaborate with others. You are not likely to interact with your coworkers extensively or get to know them on the same personal level as you may in an office. For a lot of […]
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