Traditional project managers are experiencing career threat nowadays. They often feel confused since they are not sure what their role and responsibilities in agile or scrum processes. Let me share some of the conversations I had with various people. “Yay! Long lived agile/scrum! Say NO to all project managers!” Jamie is a developer, I met […]
Author Archives: Lynn Chin
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Apr
Apr
As an agile practitioner, I always heard about Design Thinking these days. In my first sight, I wasn’t really convince this has anything related to agile. It is another fancy word that has been widely used in the UX world. Apparently, this is no longer the case now… In the latest change of SAFe 5.0, Design […]
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Mar
Mar
“COVID-19 had disrupted our normal, daily life.” And… we had to stay at home to fight for the virus during the lockdown period. People lost their jobs and income, or some employees are forced to work from home. Everyone is being depressed as the news reported the number of positive cases is uprising every day. […]
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Feb
Feb
The concept of “Working From Home” is not common practice at most organisations in Hong Kong. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, enterprise-level organisations, and even the government in Hong Kong and China are encouraging workers to work remotely. Recently, I have spoken to my Hong Konger friends who worked in conglomerates or other government institutions. […]
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Sep
Sep
If you have worked in the IT industry before, you may come across the term “laziness, impatience, and hubris” from your developer friends, colleagues at your workplace. If you haven’t come, no worries! 😉 Just keep reading on… The father of Perl Programming language, Larry Wall, once made an interesting statement about the three virtues […]
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Aug
Aug
One night, I met Jack in one of the meetup event. Jack is a DevOps specialist, he worked at the DevOps space for the past couple years. He tried to share his knowledge and experiences with another person, who has absolute zero technical background. Jack is very passionate, and kept throwing up a lot technical jargons […]
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Jun
Jun
Recently, a friend of mine shared an article that talks about the Boeing 737 Max incident saga. While reading the first few lines of the article, it just gives me an impression this has something related to agile in software development. Agile has been a great love by organizations and corporates which helps them to […]
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Mar
Mar
A lot of marketers believed and claimed that Lean Marketing is Agile Marketing. In fact, this is often not the case. Certainly, Lean and Agile has their own similarities, but they are not under the same category. Don’t get me wrong, this has been a misunderstanding in the software development world. Even till now, everyone […]
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Jan
Jan
As a consultant, I noticed that different people have different perception and understanding of Scrum. Here are some of the examples I have come across: Project managers think that scrum as an agile project management framework for software delivery purposes. Developers think Scrum is a framework that helps teams to work together. Both answers are […]
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