How much time should a team devote and managers allocate to sprint overhead? That is, activities related to the scrum processes itself. Other than the time spent on development, producing deliverable, time must be spent on sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective, backlog grooming, and
Puppies and kittens for Christmas? How boring and uninspired. This year, get your very own pet jellyfish gliding languorously around a desktop-sized jellyfish tank (a $366 value)! About Jellyfish Art Tanks Jellyfish Art produces fully-equipped jellyfish tanks and kits that have received accolades ranging from
Actual motorcycle helmets modeled after Predator. File this under “Very cool”, but also “Potentially creepy”. Outside of Halloween, social caution is advised. http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/predator-motorcycle-helmet Also note that the posting is from the website www.ThisIsWhyImBroke.com. LOL! No sh*t.
A 32-year-old man who died after downing dozens of roaches and worms last month to win a python at a Florida reptile store choked to death, medical officials said Monday. Edward Archbold died “as a result of asphyxia due to choking and aspiration of gastric
(Reuters) – Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting’s eyes in old age — the day his father cut off his genitals, and the day his family threw away the pickled remains that should have made him a whole man again at death.
Infographic: How PRINCE2 and Agile Reinforce Each Other Figure 1: How PRINCE2 and Agile reinforce each other Fortes Solutions is an international organization with Dutch roots which develops ‘best practice’ software for organizations that want to improve their efficiency in projects, programs and portfolios. Infographic:
Several years ago, I was working on a large, complex application. It was a bit of a legacy project: many different designers and front-end developers had come and gone, each appending a new portion to the sprawling application. By the time I arrived, the CSS
The Rundown: Consumers increasingly rely on the mobile web to research and make purchases, which makes it more important than ever for companies to have an effective mobile presence. But what makes a good mobile site? To answer this question, Google partnered with AnswerLab to
Here are some archetypal characters that you may find on your team. They’re strong personality types that, ultimately, need to work collaboratively within the team to keep things moving along. Reacting to them intelligently makes all the difference. THE BLOWHARD. She gets riled up. She
Retrospectives, and why you need them A couple of months ago we looked at how to conduct a Sprint Review. We saw that a Review considers what work was done, and distinguished it from a Sprint Retrospective which reflects upon how work is being done. The
What is Elicitation? A thorough discovery of business requirements is almost never readily available at an analyst’s fingertips—rarely can requirements be quickly looked up as one would gather information for a term paper or study for a test. Much of business or technical requirements is
1. Content Prioritization 2. Vertical Instead of Horizontal Navigation 3. Bars, Tabs, and Hypertext 4. Text and Graphics 5. Contextual and Global Navigation 6. Footers 7. Breadcrumbs 8. Progress Indicator 9. Integration with Phone Functions 10. Localized and Personalized Search Read the full text here
Found on Mobile Testing Blog… (original link here) Mobile project should be well planned in advanced with SMART milestones, efficient choices of devices (lead/gold devices), right tools and Agile ALM (Application life-cycle management). In this short post i will advise the most important project milestones and
This article is written by Jay Simons, president of enterprise software company Atlassian. What I found interesting was the evolution of not only cloud based tracking systems and code repositories, but cloud based code editors, testing platforms, application platforms and deployment tools. Excerpted below… (full
Over the last year or so, our team embarked on moving from a typical Waterfall development approach to implementing a Scrum/Agile approach. While there are plenty of good blogs about making this transition from a development standpoint, I have not seen a lot of good
(WebMD) Predicting the death of a patient, even an elderly, demented one, is an inexact science, even for a doctor with decades of medical experience. But a cat in a Providence, R.I., nursing home, an animal shelter refugee named Oscar, seems to have a sixth
CNN — Your husband, an avid gamer and techie, dies of a heart attack, leaving his vast online life – one you don’t know much about – in limbo. His accounts, to which you don’t know the passwords, go idle. His e-mails go unanswered, his