*The following is written by guest blogger Salarco Since 2012, I’ve been working for an international organization that promotes leadership through different kinds of cross-cultural exchanges for young people between 18 and 30 years old. Our goal is to promote peace and fulfillment of humankind’s potential through […]
*The following is written by guest blogger Salarco Why do companies fail? It isn’t because they have bad strategies or took bad choices in the past, the issue is never the lack of ideas or people that are not smart enough to find a common vision. The seventy […]
“The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.” – Agile Manifesto; Beck, K. et al (2001). Face-to-face communication is typically described as communication without using some sort of technology to facilitate that communication. It is also how most […]
If you haven’t already, complete Self-Hosting Jira for Small Teams Part 1: Installing Jira At the end of Part 1, you either had the installer launch Jira for you, or you can navigate a web browser to http://localhost:8080/secure/SetupMode!default.jspa This is a reference to the localhost. That means your computer. You […]
There is a claim among people that Agile teams are leaderless. The claim can sound reasonable on the surface, with all the talk about self-organizing teams and a lack of defined roles… But it is wrong for several reasons: Self-organizing does not mean leaderless Agile is not a […]
I never really cared for certifications. You pay a bunch of money to take a test, and then you get a piece of paper or a PDF file. I already have pieces of paper, much more expensive pieces of paper. I came to a conclusion, though, that much […]
Hosting your own instance of Jira, using your own equipment, is fairly easy and can be a lot cheaper. You don’t need a special server, or even need to mess with specific server software. You can put it on your laptop or desktop PC if you want, which […]
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 […]
