Product Owner is responsible for "What" part of it.
Team is responsible for "How" part of it.
Scrum Master or Project Manager is responsible for "Process".
Friday, August 19, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Usability Presentation
It was pleasant experience to take a session on Usability in my office. Almost after 2 years I connected my roots to UX world and it refreshed me a lot. In the session I touched upon various principles of Usability by giving real life examples so that my colleagues understands them correctly. I also discussed about bad usability examples by showing few images of Local Trains Restroom, burner etc.
To clear the understanding of Conceptual Model and how it can be applied to interface designing, I gave an exercise to the audience for adding a contact to others mobile phone of different mobile company.
After sharing couple of examples on how Usability can be applied to real life objects around us, asked everyone to note down 1 or 2 items that they think in our quadrant should be more usable or not usable at all. Everyone came up with various items that impacted their day to day activities in office due to bad usability product.
Overall, it was a nice experience to brush upon Usability Principles. I am hoping to take such very often.
To clear the understanding of Conceptual Model and how it can be applied to interface designing, I gave an exercise to the audience for adding a contact to others mobile phone of different mobile company.
After sharing couple of examples on how Usability can be applied to real life objects around us, asked everyone to note down 1 or 2 items that they think in our quadrant should be more usable or not usable at all. Everyone came up with various items that impacted their day to day activities in office due to bad usability product.
Overall, it was a nice experience to brush upon Usability Principles. I am hoping to take such very often.
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
PMBOK and Agile
After getting PMP certified in May 2011, recently, I conducted a session in my company on an Overview of Agile and Scrum. This allowed me to explore Agile further and further, which took me to the point where I started getting a feeling and hearing that PMBOK is Waterfall Methodology based process and Agile is not part of it.
I started googling and also viewed YouTube videos to my doubts. Finally, I found different supportive videos and pages which proved that it was my misconception, my myth. PMBOK is guide, it is standards for Project Management. PMBOK teaches of WHAT do in Project management and Agile's different methodology teaches you HOW to implement that in Software Development by using suitable methodology like Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Crystal, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), Feature-Driven Development (FDD), Lean Software Development. PMBOK is a guide and Agile's methodology tells you how to do. PMBOK does not echo waterfall.
Agile is a philosophy. Agile is a way of Thinking and not just doing.
I started googling and also viewed YouTube videos to my doubts. Finally, I found different supportive videos and pages which proved that it was my misconception, my myth. PMBOK is guide, it is standards for Project Management. PMBOK teaches of WHAT do in Project management and Agile's different methodology teaches you HOW to implement that in Software Development by using suitable methodology like Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Crystal, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), Feature-Driven Development (FDD), Lean Software Development. PMBOK is a guide and Agile's methodology tells you how to do. PMBOK does not echo waterfall.
Agile is a philosophy. Agile is a way of Thinking and not just doing.
Chillar Party - Movie Review - 4/5
Movie Chillar Party... Rocks!!! 4/5
I like the way kids have acted. Specially "Jaangya" boy.
It reminded me the way we used to give nick names to our friends. Few of the special nick names were "Helen", "Champaa", "Papad", "Chadda", "Lolla", "Hanger", "Pandu", "Chamdi", "Hawa", "Mummy", "Mulla"... :)... we still call each other by those names :)
Other highlight of the movie was Kid Rhymes in Tapori Style...
Jack and Jill... gaye Sumdi mein Hill..
To fetch a pail of Water....
Jack tha Akela... and Jill thi Akeli...
Life mein Lochaa.. thereafter...
Do watch this movie!!!
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Emotional Intelligence and Projects
Reading Emotional Intelligence and Projects by Nicholas Clarke. This book attracted my attention and I am curious to know what is it about. It's review will be coming soon from me.
Monday, August 01, 2011
Books and me: Book Review: The Palace of Illusions
Following article was written by one of my colleague Sudheer Penubarthy. I am impressed with his skills of narrating his experience after reading a book.
Books and me: Book Review: The Palace of Illusions: "Here we go another book of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, though I saw the author of the book after picking the book up because, to be truthful..."
Books and me: Book Review: The Palace of Illusions: "Here we go another book of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, though I saw the author of the book after picking the book up because, to be truthful..."
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