One of the most recurring topics in many organizations is time spent on meetings. …

Are “happy” people more productive? You would be surprised to know that the problem on how to quantify happiness at work is well known and studied from decades. You can measure your “employee turnover” or attrition rate and infer happiness. You can use a more direct approach, similarly to the way…

It’s all over the news that thousands of people globally have been laid off. Some of the companies with layoffs in 2022: DoorDash layoffs: 6% of workforce laid off (November, 2022) Candy Digital layoffs: 33% of workforce laid off (November, 2022) Amazon layoffs: 1% of workforce laid off beginning (November…

A chemistry coaching call is an initial conversation between a coach and a potential client, during which they assess whether they are a good fit for working together. The purpose of the call is two-fold. On one side the coach explains to the prospect coachee the nature of the coaching…

Agility Agility is the ability to be flexible, to change, to innovate, and to give up beloved programs and goals. Agility is also the willingness to change direction quickly when new conditions demands so, it is a survival necessity, essential given the uncertain circumstances and speed of change of today’s world. Agile …

Scrum, as originally outlined in the Scrum Guide, is designed for a single team to be able to work at its optimal capacity while maintaining a sustainable pace. Since its inception, the usage of Scrum has extended to the creation of products, processes, and services that require the efforts of…

How the Scrum framework fit in the and CMMI? Projects combining Agile mindset, practices and methods with Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) are more successful in producing higher quality software compared to project in non Agile organisations that implement CMMI only. Systematic Software Engineering works at CMMI level 5 and…

In a previous post (Ways of eating, working, evolving in a bitesize) I wrote that “The way we sustain ourselves is a lean-agile iterative short-cycled feedback loop of ingesting, digesting, and removing waste.” Expanding on the same topic a few thoughts arise in comparing a waterfall and an agile lifestyle…

In this article I will focus on Quality Assurance in Scrum Applied to Safety Critical Software. Traditionally, safety-critical projects have been developed using the waterfall process. However, this makes it costly and challenging to incrementally introduce new features and to certify the modified product for use. One of the many…