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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Context of a Scrum Product Owner
The USS Constitution, launched in 1797, is possibly the oldest wooden ship still afloat. Over two hundred years of repairs, retrofits, and refurbishing has left only an estimated ten to fifteen percent of the original timber in place. I’ve read … Continue reading
Scrum Product Owner – Basic Outline
I found it helpful to review my notes on the role of a Scrum Product Owner and place an outline here to which I can refer quickly. Three Pillars of Scrum Transparency Inspection Adaptation Iron Triangle (from Project Management) Scope … Continue reading
A Recommended Course on Udemy.com
Upon completion of Rob Percival’s course, The Complete Web Developer Course – Build 14 Websites on Udemy.com, I’d like to give the course a positive recommendation. The course guides you through setting up all the behind-the-scenes parts of a website … Continue reading
Engineering as a Starting Point for Other Careers
Over the years I’ve met and worked with a number of people who started off as engineers and went on to do other things. One friend started as an electrical engineer and went on to become a corporate lawyer, though … Continue reading
Working for Big Companies vs. Small Ones
I’ve worked mostly in smaller companies during my career, which has been a mixed blessing. I worked for two larger companies at the beginning of my technical career (and I guess you’d have to classify the Army as a large … Continue reading
High Overhead vs. Lean and Mean
A company I worked for some years ago tended to work on projects of a certain size. They weren’t what anyone would call large projects but they weren’t small ones, either. They carried a certain overhead: discovery, requirements, development, application, … Continue reading
Knowing What’s Under the Hood and How It Got There
The downside of having been involved in software for a long time is that it’s easy to fall into the trap of not knowing all of the latest languages and techniques. One gets off into analysis and management and discovery … Continue reading
Project Management Environments I’ve Worked In – Part 2
Yesterday’s post described the project management environments I encountered earlier in my career. The unifying themes of each environment are that the formality and intensity of project management techniques are proportional to the scope and scale of each project. The … Continue reading
Project Management Environments I’ve Worked In – Part 1
Most of the work I’ve done in my career has been accounted for on a project basis. I was never an operations guy, my job was always to build or fix something under a particular job code and then go … Continue reading