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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What are you reading today?

By Delmar Hager

I have alway stressed continuous learning. The constant comment from people who know me is how large my library is. I guess I got this from my father who was constantly purchasing and reading books. Because technical books are outdated so quickly I constantly removing old books from the library. A couple of years ago I joined http://my.safaribooksonline.com/ . This has been a great resource for technical and business books realated to technology. I am no longer filling by books shelves. It helps having a tablet pc because it make reading online more natural.

Today I ran accross an excellent book, 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know, 1st Edition. I highly recommend this book. It is easy reading but one of those books filled with axioms that we need to reminded of all of the time.

The first maxim is “Don’t Put Your Resume Ahead of the Requirements”. How often do we want to use a new technology because it will look good on our resume?

There are 96 more to go. You may disagree with what these experts are saying but they are thought provoking. Take a look at this book.

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