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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Mar
12

Self organizing as a team

Posted by: Delmar Hager | Comments (0)

Have we paralyzed our workers so they do not have any initiative? I recently started forming a new team and ran into several issues. We defined a product backlog and tasks to be done in this sprint. When the planning was finished the tasks that an engineer thought he was going to work on were removed from the sprint. Mind you there is enough work to do in this sprint to keep the team busy. This engineer though he had nothing to do because his tasks were removed. Then the resource manager was upset because they had put the member on the team and they had nothing to do.

This is prime example of the individual not thinking as a team member. This individual must realize they are a member of a team whose goal is to produce a successful product. We need to adjust to the needs of the team.

Categories : Agile, General, Scrum, Work
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Feb
17

Community of Practice

Posted by: Delmar Hager | Comments (0)

Agile practices are built around cross function teams. The team members may become isolated especially if they are specialist such as user interface developers, testers, etc.  Companies should encourage Community of Practice.

Community of Practice are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on a ongoing basis.
p. 263 - Scaling Lean and Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum

This allows a developer to interact with other developers so that they can keep their skill sets current.

Categories : Agile, General, Scrum, Uncategorized
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