The Lonely Scrum

evaluate the success of your senior project. reflect on what was most effective and what was most challenging. Well I take my test on the 11th. I think I should do ok, I have been consistently passing the practice exams. It has been a journey for sure. I do feel more comfortable with the Idea of the Scrum Framework. It has been fun to work in implementing parts of scrum into my workflow at my job. One of the big wins I have had is when one of my engineers started filling out cards for our scrum board and was all about it. It seemed like she was enjoying herself. I think Scrum has a bright future in the depot!

#3: Develop a plan and implement basic steps in establishing an effective networking/job search strategy. Being that I have a job that I plan to stay in I would have to think a little about what I plan to do with my project to get a job. I plan to use the knowledge gained from getting my certification to help with the projects I run. Ideally I would like to help build a contingent of Scrum users at my work. There are some that used it in school a little but none who have worked in a professional environment with it. Perhaps I will get the chance to change that.

Write a journal entry that addresses these points: What is your professional networking strategy? What are your and job search / refinement plans? Identify clearly the first step, to be done in the next 2 weeks. You will revisit this in your week 8 Journal Entry. I am in an interesting place work wise coming out of this quarter. I have a great job that I was able to get through leveraging skills I gained in the program. Where I go from here really is within the organization or move out to others. At this point, I am not stagnant in my work. There is still ladder to climb and opportunities on the horizon. A few years in my position and I may be able to move to a supervisory role or into a more higher level of project management. For now I need to keep my projects on track and push to get them as close to automated as I can. This will allow me time to excel and refine my workload.  One step in the right direction would be to expand my use of scrum tools in my cu...

What are presentations today? Can you make a written presentation? Or does written mean you have a few power point slides with some graphics that glean over what you are attempting to convey? A purely written presentation would probably look something more like a research paper. Something that rolls up all your thoughts and wordily depicts them in a readable format. Is this blog a written presentation? We gave presentations in class this past Wednesday. Kind of a mid term roll up of where we are in our projects. Since my project consists of probably 80% study for the PSM test, there wasn't much direct information I could talk about. I did however take the opportunity to speak on the wins and the troubles I have had working to try and implement some of the project management techniques I have been learning at work. Overall it wasn't hard to fill the 10 minute talk time. I was able to cover everything just as my timer was reaching zero. Only a couple questions and I was don...