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2020 Learnings
The year 2020 is marked by crisis, disease, pandemic, fear, uncertainty, and life-threatening situations. To stay positive, take the time to get used to the new normal. To have the same productivity as before, take the time you need and possibly speak with your mentors. Self-Organizing Skills The days can be very busy: work, children, …
Managing Difficult Times
Life is not all sunshine and rainbows; we often need to survive rain to enjoy the warmth of the sun and appreciate the colors of the rainbow. Real-life experiences include a good deal of highs and lows. When we are soaring high, we tend to forget the lows, and when we are hit down by …
Organizing ACP19 in Islamabad
Agile Conference Pakistan was 6th annual event by Pakistan Agile Development Society which was founded in 2014. in 2019, national board of society authorize Islamabad chapter to organize in Islamabad. Being President of Islamabad Chapter, It was an honor for me to do in 2019 as society was recently transformed into a proper structure in …
Noon with Project Managers
It was Saturday and great to see that future Project Managers were spending their Saturday to get training from Raheel Khokhar for PMP certification. It was not 2 or 4 days but it was around 8 Saturday(s) session and 4 hours a day session and definitely people sacrificed their 8 consecutive Saturdays with dedication of …
Being President of AgileISB
I was not ready to be President but somehow based on the voting of valuable members of Islamabad chapter I was elected. I played vital role in Pakistan Agile Development Society since 2014 with a motive of Payback to Pakistan while now the society was growing fast and the chairman of society for tenure (2019-2020) …
Honor speech at #WomenInQA
I was invited by Mariam Aslam (Founder of WomenInQA) for its first 2 days training. Objective of training was to provide a full essence of Quality Assurance to the participants who are beginner and medium level of their careers. Around 30+ participants joined the training along their laptop and the speakers or presenters belongs to …
Dialogue is the key to Agile Success
A common problem faced by IT companies during adapting agility is that clients are not much up to date about Agile Project Management. Of course they are concerned with the output instead of process. Clients are focused to get their problem solved and are less interested about knowing the process itself. (Agile, Waterfall or any …
Attended PSQC18 – Pakistan Software Quality Conference 2018 in Lahore
Opening Notes Keynote talk by Nahil Mahmood on Software Security Transformation, he initiated that if the software is not secure then we are unable to judge the quality of software. So handling along functional and non-functional requirement in software development, we have to focus on all level of security too. Lesson Learned: Need to study more about software …
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Presented A Talk on Backlog Management Checklist at #AgilePK Session
I have been invited to present a talk on Backlog Management Checklist as there are many misconceptions in IT industry with respect to Agile and its roles. My fellow Mr. Syed Ahsan Ahmad presented real agile challenges while my talk focused only on the checklist. I shared Product owner and Team Members are directly involved with …
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5 P(s) in Quality Assurance Era
Now a days everyone is talking about “Quality” but we need to observe that are we taking it seriously to be improved or its just a voice. We should focus to initiate some steps : Track Mistakes If we are going to commit to quality, first we must define exactly what quality is. For software industry, this …
FEEDBACK
Feedback is basically a Re-action We need feedback because : It can keep us going It gives us a feeling of belonging and purpose It increases growth and happiness for both sides It unlocks change and innovation It prevents us from being stuck and discouraged So, we need to make FEEDBACK positively. F for …
Invest in a project
Well, its not money included in the investment of a project but yest its investment of time to make project successful. Here I would like to share few of points which I learnt from an Agile Training. INVEST I for Independent : Team should work independent and responsible for their work N for Negotiable : Team …