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Working as both a Developer and as a ScrumMaster has skewed my perspective a bit to be dev-team centric, so I recently took SolutionsIQ’s Certified Product Owner course to learn more about the scrum software development process through the eyes of a Product Owner. The course was laid out in a novel way – as a [...]
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Based on my previous blog which asked the question of whether HR can be “agile” and support a group of developers in a way that is consistent with the agile software development philosophy, here are a few examples of how we have demonstrated ‘agile HR’ at 2Paths recently. UNITY: At 2Paths, we were concerned about having an [...]
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Many people who have worked in larger organizations would likely say “Fiction”.  When companies are made up of many different departments, divisions, zones, branches, subs, (whatever), and have a lot of employees, the HR function can  staff itself and develop programs in a number of ways which include: -building standard programs and centralized HR support for [...]
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We, here at 2Paths, are avid Agile Software Development and SCRUM practitioners. SCRUM works very well in the ideal project: from five to nine developers and one on-site Product Owner. But how well does this work with large organizations, especially those that are overseas? We recently had the pleasure of working on a project with the OECD, [...]
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Many people within technology and development environments are fully aware of the limitations and frustrations with traditional project management techniques. Most frustrations boil down to a breakdown in communication, eg: what the customer wants is not necessarily what the programmer hears. Communication is key in solving complex problems and all too often barriers are [...]
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