Also known as the five-factor model, the Big Five Personality Traits are regarded as the primary traits that differentiate people’s personalities from each other. Research has shown that variations in each of the five types can impact entrepreneurial intention. The Big Five personality traits are: Extroversion Agreeableness […]
*The following is written by guest blogger Tammy Ziemba Extreme Programming (XP) is an agile software development framework that aims to deliver higher quality software and higher personal satisfaction for the development team. XP is the most explicit of the frameworks in regards to suitable design practices for […]
What is Flaccid Scrum or Flaccid Agile? In the beginning, Scrum teams are moving along fast. They are doing most of what they say they will do in a Sprint and churning out code like a virtual code factory. As time goes on, they may start to get […]
*The following is written by guest blogger Tammy Ziemba Test Driven Development (TDD) is a moderate programming advancement process that is driven by a computerized test case which characterizes the ideal improvement to the system. The test is first executed to come up short. The developer at that […]
*The following is written by guest blogger Tammy Ziemba Agile development is based upon a value system and specific core practices, that when reliably connected, result in high performing software development organizations. Build up Wildly Important Goals: A team can concentrate on 1-3 things at any given […]
Projects fail for several reasons and those reasons often vary depending on who you ask. My own opinion, you can track back just about every single failure reason to issues with planning or issues with communication; sometimes both. That is, of course, assuming you have adequate support from […]
Agile is a generic or “umbrella” term for an operational framework or methodology that strives to keep a focus on requirements by using adaptive approaches and continuous improvement practices. A Simple Agile Explanation Not everyone has time to read one of my long-winded explanations on Agile, Scrum, and […]
Quite simply, Osmotic Communication is the accidental overhearing of background information that may later end up being important. The term was coined by Alistair Cockburn, one of the signers of the Agile Manifesto. “Osmotic communication means that information flows into the background hearing of members of the team, […]
Versatility is the name of the game here at Agile-Mercurial. If you can do it with Excel, you should be able to figure out how to do it with Google Sheets. If you can’t figure out how to do it with Excel, check out my tutorials here: Excel VBA […]
If you are using Kanban within Scrum or another Agile framework, you may not need to worry much about this. The meetings used as part of those frameworks should work perfectly fine. This is more meant to be a suggested guide of meeting types if you are embracing […]
If you went through an earlier tutorial on custom issue types I created (Customize Issue Types in Jira), you would have noticed that I modified the Issue Types for one project and one project only. But what if we wanted to create a standard set of Issue Types […]
Outside of the standard name, address, and email questions for job applications, there is one fairly common question that comes up about 1/3 to 1/2 of the time in applications. It seems like a fairly pointless question. It says something along the lines of, “Tell us something that […]
Before we begin, I want to explain what issues are in Jira. Issues are pretty much all of the things you need to do during a project to get it to the end and everything that comes up during a project. You may start with a series of […]
Pedro Manuel Faria is the CEO of a company called In Forming, a spin-off company of Famousgadget Lda. Pedro was kind enough to let me interview him in a rather unconventional fashion, through LinkedIn messaging. Our main discussion topic was the new project management software his company was […]
Phone conferencing can be tricky to navigate. Without really seeing everyone you lack some visual clues as to when someone else may have something to add to the discussion. This can sometimes create scenarios where some people dominate the call and others are never heard from. As […]
