I was at the “To Hire and To Hold” seminar at the Asian Institute of Management last October 29. This is the 2nd of three enablement seminars hosted by the Philippine Software Industry Association, with the first one on Technopreneurship last September. My officemates Butch Landingin and Milo Felipe were speakers in the first seminar [...]
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To Hire and To Hold
October 31, 2009
Strike Force sprint planning
October 12, 2009
Today, I had the opportunity to facilitate the sprint planning of our newest team in Orange & Bronze, which we affectionately call “Strike Force”. We recognized that we can be more responsive in dealing with new opportunities that come our way, as well as more deliberate in supporting our long term commitments and initiatives, to [...]
Certified Scrum Master
October 3, 2009
About a month ago, I took the Certified Scrum Master course with Bas Vodde as our trainer. I’ve wanted to take a CSM course when I started reading more on Agile and Scrum but costs were the deal breaker: there were no local courses being offered, and the ones nearest the Philippines were beyond reach [...]
(Really) back to writing code
August 10, 2009
A few weeks back I started work on a new module for my current project. I haven’t done this for quite some time, as I found myself working with other members of the team, so this was really exciting. Fast forward today and we have the core set of the module in production, and are [...]
