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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Multi-tasking verse Single-task (part 2)

By Delmar Hager

Why do managers believe that they are getting more productivity from a person if they are working on multiple projects? I know they are afraid of have “down” time. But what really happens when a person has some down time?

Let me give you an analogy. Let’s say you by a new delivery van (yes we need to help the economy right now) and you want to start using it in your business. Now you want to make the most of this asset. So you decide that you will drive it at 100 miles hour and that you will not take it into the shop for routine maintenance because you will not be able to make deliveries with it. How long would your new new delivery van last? Is this the best use of your new asset?

Developers cannot be constantly running at peak speeds. Eventually they will wear out. Also, they need to be able to work on skill improvement and have a chance to expand their horizons. Slack time in the schedule is important just for the sake of sanity.

Having a developer working on multiple projects is bound to wear them out. This can be displayed in lack of enthusiasm, increase sick days or just plain bad attitude.

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