Justin York - Simdesk

“Del's leadership was instrumental in bringing agile methodologies to our development team. While transitioning to scrum, I often consulted with Del about how to handle things in the scrum framework. Once our team was fully running on scrum, I felt that we were at least twice as productive as we had been in the past.”

Matt Willson - Pervasive Software

“As Delmar's manager for over a year, I was very impressed with the simplicity of his designs, the quality of his software, and the tenacity he brought to problem solving, especially customer issues. Delmar provided strong leadership for the developers who worked under his tutelage.”

Steve Mook - Pervasive Software and Simdesk

"Del is experienced,enthusiastic and tenacious - an excellent team lead with expertise in UI design and development and Scrum project management. He is willing to learn new technologies, challenge assumptions, take risks, and be accountable for results. His skill and leadership would benefit any team that seeks to improve its ability to deliver value to customers and to the business."

My Agile Experience

What was really exciting was to see the Scrum methodology adopted company wide at Simdesk. Because of the success of our team I was able to train and mentor other team leads, managers and corporate executives to use Scrum. This lead to increased productivity and better communication among the teams, support, product managers and upper management. Goals are well defined and consistently meet.

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23

Agile and Yearly Budgets

By Delmar Hager

I just got done reading material on annual budgeting process in large companies. When we think about this yearly ritual you start realizing how counterproductive it can be.

We always joked about Internet time in the last years of the 20th century. Companies were accelerating the deployment of products and ideas in months instead of years. One could not imagine trying to forecast a budget for a year.

Now we are in uncertain times. Yearly budgeting just restrains us because we allocate funds for projects we assume are going to be valid 6 or 9 months from now. Can you really predict what is going to happen 6 months from now for any company?

Companies need to make all processes agile to truly be Agile. That includes the area of budgeting.

Categories : Agile, General

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