Recently an article popped up on LinkedIn from Ryan Hoover (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/problems-remote-working-ryan-hoover/), that discussed many of the issues telecommuters or remote workers face. The problems he listed: Loneliness Disconnecting Distractions Watercooler Serendipity Communication Respect Some of them I can agree with and I wrote about my own issues with […]
Which is more effective, a distributed team or a co-located one? I am not convinced that a co-located team is more effective. I don’t care how many times you say it, I need more proof than the one study I could find that supported it, but also made […]
It can be convenient sitting at home taking a certification exam online. No going out, driving to a testing center, finding parking, and sitting in a room that usually feels too cold surrounded by other people taking their exams. I always end up in a room with someone […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
I am a Bitcoin skeptic, a skeptic of all cryptocurrencies actually. I am certainly not an expert, but I have kept my eye on Bitcoins since I first heard about them in 2010. I found the technology behind cryptocurrencies interesting. Not the mining aspect, that just seemed silly, […]
66% Off Microsoft Excel Value Bundle In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to duplicate sheets from a template sheet. This is aimed at someone who knows the basics of VBA. I assume you know how to do a lot of things already and I […]
66% Off Microsoft Excel Value Bundle Selenium Basic is an add-on library for Excel Visual Basic. I am positive there are a lot more uses than I know of, but what I know about it makes it well worth learning. You can use it to build fancy automated […]
Now that you have Jira on your computer(Self-Hosting Jira for Small Teams Part 2: Setting Jira up on First Run), you might just find that you want others on your network to access it. If you recall from the earlier tutorials, there was talk about “localhost.” If someone […]
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