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From The Trenches: December 2013
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Life, work, management, leadership and Agile development as seen from the front line. Wednesday, December 25, 2013. Off Topic - A Tool For Deleting Duplicated Files. Here is the source code: http:/ sdrv.ms/1cQeINo. How to compile and run:. Copy all 3 files in a folder. Open the terminal and $cd. Mv /DiskUtility.java ./ro/alexandrugris/diskutil/. Javac ./ro/alexandrugris/diskutil/*.java. Jar -cfm diskutil.jar Manifest.txt ./ro/alexandrugris/diskutil/*.class. Java -jar diskutil.jar - help. Users/Alex/Appli...
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From The Trenches: March 2012
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Life, work, management, leadership and Agile development as seen from the front line. Sunday, March 11, 2012. A Few Words About Communication In Projects. Reduce the amount of spam in the project. Focus on relevant matters. Escape the need of digesting unimportant messages. Basically the aim is to shift focus from quantity to quality and, instead of spending hours or scanning unnecessary reports, focus. The aim of reporting is to:. Provide a clear picture of what is happening in the project. The team kno...
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From The Trenches: September 2014
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Life, work, management, leadership and Agile development as seen from the front line. Wednesday, September 3, 2014. Agile Project and Portfolio Management for Business Projects. Traditionally Agile is recognized as a software development-specific set of methodologies. The Agile Manifesto, the document that defines the pillars of the Agile movement, seems to inexorably link it to software teams. But is Agile so specific to software? Can those principles be applied to a wider range of initiatives? Write do...
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From The Trenches: December 2011
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Life, work, management, leadership and Agile development as seen from the front line. Thursday, December 22, 2011. I believe it is important to evaluate performance not only based on absolute results, but rather on results put in the context of that person: what was his level of understanding at the moment for which we are evaluating him, his know-how, visibility, what kind of help did he receive, how was the team he worked with. Given the context, would he have been able to do better? What do we measure?
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From The Trenches: The Leader - A Perspective And An Aspirational Model
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Life, work, management, leadership and Agile development as seen from the front line. Monday, August 4, 2014. The Leader - A Perspective And An Aspirational Model. What the leader is and does:. Relentless pursuit of perfectness in any deliverable. Seeks for beauty, concision, simplicity, clarity. Is not satisfied with default answers and quickly spots assumptions, both in his own reasoning and in others. Curious and always learning. Synthesis / analysis skills. Presentation skills - both in writing a...
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From The Trenches: December 2014
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Life, work, management, leadership and Agile development as seen from the front line. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. One Page Project Estimates. The questions this post is providing an answer to are:. How can a project manager provide visibility to his / her stakeholders when he / she wants to pitch to them a new project? How can he / she highlight the risks associated with staffing and estimations and play with just a few variables so that risk is brought to an acceptable level? Fill the "Budgets" column...
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From The Trenches: January 2013
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Life, work, management, leadership and Agile development as seen from the front line. Sunday, January 20, 2013. A Case for Professional Project Management. Throughout this post I will discuss why Project Management is so important and why standardizing its practice within the organization can be of benefit to everyone involved. At the end, I will discuss the two blockers one can face when trying to spread the practice. The promise of Project Management:. Poor communication and unhappy stakeholders. Not u...
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From The Trenches: January 2012
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Life, work, management, leadership and Agile development as seen from the front line. Saturday, January 21, 2012. How I Passed the PMP Exam. From my perspective, a credential such as the PMP. Has tangible benefits that can be divided in two main categories: the recognition of knowledge that comes from passing the exam and the process of becoming a better project manager by learning for the exam. Giving the owner international credibility. How does the exam look like? The exam is not very difficult yet it...
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From The Trenches: November 2013
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Life, work, management, leadership and Agile development as seen from the front line. Friday, November 15, 2013. Again On Multisite Collaborations - Various Setups. While writing the previous post. More ideas came to my mind about multisite collaborations. Just to have it under our eyes, here is the terminology I use in these articles:. Several teams located in remote locations work together to complete a large scale project. Lead site (the buyer):. Associate site (the seller):. In this case, the associa...
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From The Trenches: Agile Project and Portfolio Management for Business Projects
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Life, work, management, leadership and Agile development as seen from the front line. Wednesday, September 3, 2014. Agile Project and Portfolio Management for Business Projects. Traditionally Agile is recognized as a software development-specific set of methodologies. The Agile Manifesto, the document that defines the pillars of the Agile movement, seems to inexorably link it to software teams. But is Agile so specific to software? Can those principles be applied to a wider range of initiatives? Write do...
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