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."

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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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Communicate, communicate, communicate

By Delmar Hager

Communicate can I say it enough. Agile development requires and enhances communication. We had an unfortunate situation where lines of communication broke down for a project. It occurred with requirements and QA testing.

The scope of the requirements were not clearly understood by the product owner. Actually we do not have direct communication with the product owners and are using a proxy. Fortunately there are still drawing on the window which clearly showed the scope of the project.

Then we had miscommunication with the QA test plan. The test plan was never reviewed. and had tests that were outside of the scope of the project.

The project is also behind schedule and requires special exemptions to get into the current release.

I hope you understand that this was not a Agile project. These problems are ones that would have been exposed sprint plans and reviews.

Categories : Adoption, Agile

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