The 8 Qualities of the Emotional Scrum Master

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The Scrum Master profession spans a wide variety of skills, knowledge, and experience. Scrum Masters try to create high performing teams and drive organizational change. Although our primary focus and responsibility is the process, it’s people we work with all the time. Surprisingly, our profession focuses predominantly on developing cognitive intelligence (IQ). We need to learn to appreciate the value of emotional intelligence (EQ) in becoming great Scrum Masters.

What Is Emotional Intelligence?

The term emotional intelligence was first created by researchers Peter Salavoy and John Mayer, and popularized by author Daniel Goleman. Emotional intelligence has been defined as, "the ability to recognize, understand, and manage our own emotions, and recognize, understand, and influence the emotions of others."

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Project Management Techniques and Tools Made Simple

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Choosing the right approach to managing a project is crucial for successful project delivery. The way you manage work is defined by techniques that you use and the tools that you adopt. In this article, we’ve collected project management tools and techniques that are used in different fields and help create an efficient process.

Project Management Techniques

Techniques in project management range from traditional to innovative ones. Which one to choose for running a project depends on project specifics, its complexity, teams involved, and other factors. Most of them can be used in various fields, however, there are techniques that are traditionally used in certain areas of activity, or are developed specifically for certain fields. Below, we’ve listed the most popular techniques that are used in project management.

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Afrolynk: African Tech and Entrepreneurship

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I attend many tech conferences around Europe (and occasionally the World), and Africa is always underrepresented. I was delighted to receive an invite to Afrolynk, an annual event that aims to bridge the European and African entrepreneurial scenes. Entering the Microsoft offices in Berlin for the event, a different crowd greeted me from typical tech and startup events, which was an incredible sight to see.

The day started with a round of drumming to bring people into the room and began a solid day of panels and keynotes. Attendees are sharply and colorfully dressed, energetic, and the variety of languages spoken around the venue highlights the multiculturalism of the African continent.

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Scaling Business Agility: Three Essential Pillars for Being Vs. Doing Agile

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The concepts of Agile, Scaling Agile, and Business Agility have become buzzwords. The crux of being Agile for the customer and people who are building products and services is buried under a focus on conducting ceremonies.

Prior to scaling Agile, let us not forget the manifesto for Agile software development. It’s all about uncovering better ways of developing software that provides value both to the customer and for people who are part of the delivery stream.

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Agile Leadership Is a Continuous Journey

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A company’s leaders must prepare for the selection, achievement, and continuous improvements of Agile delivery. Only the leadership can evolve and continuously grow the environments in which their people function. Moreover, only these mentors can design the atmosphere that promotes high-performing Agile teams to thrive and deliver excellence. Agile leaders, therefore, must show smarter ways of working so that their people will discover from their personal and professional standards, mentorship and intrinsic motivation. The quest to become an Agilest does not need to be hard. Many leaders have to attempt a new method of management. The process will need to prepare, enable, and challenge their people to attain the highest potential through Agile teachings and practices.

What is not so apparent to leaders is that their people’s knowledge of the processes alone won’t be enough. Agile leaders must take an actual role to guide the new way of working. How many times have I heard from leadership that, "You have my support and contact me if you have any questions"? That way of thinking is a recipe for disaster with Agile. Agile leaders need to involve themselves directly on a daily basis. Get out and walk around, attend daily stand-ups, pop in on Sprint Planning sessions and come to the Sprint Reviews. You want your people to see you are involved with and care about the success of the implementation.

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9 Free Online Course Sites for Growing Your Tech Skills

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Education doesn’t have to be expensive — there are plenty of free courses to brush up on your IT skills that require nothing more than an internet connection and a laptop or smartphone. These eight online education providers offer free programs and courses on nearly any technical domain.

It’s a great way to dip your toe into a new topic with limited commitment, or to stay on top of developing trends and technologies in your industry. Whether you’re interested in changing the direction of your career, just starting out, trying to beef up your resume or just looking to stay on top of technology trends, any of these eight online education providers can help you without breaking the bank.

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Agile Maturity and Agility Assessment [Webinar]

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Is Agile maturity a fad or a trend? How can an organization make an informed decision on what level of agility might become achievable before starting a transition? 

Our second webinar addressed the question of Agile maturity and detailed the survey results what indicates an Agile organization. Moreover, we introduced the ‘Agility Assessment Framework," an open source project which aims to provide Agile practitioners with the tools needed to answer these questions:

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5 Keys to Hiring Coding Boot Camp Grads

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Hiring technical talent has always been one of my most difficult tasks as a startup CTO. Development talent is in short supply for all company sizes, and we’ll see an estimated 30% increase in the number of development positions by 2026. Salaries have increased 15% in the last five years with a 2017 median salary of just over $103K, and salaries will continue to rise at a faster pace as the number of positions increases.

For these reasons, we had to look outside our established hiring channels when building our development team at CUE Marketplace. We needed reasonably-priced talent that could grow as we grew. Our company started in Boulder in a co-working space/coding school called Galvanize. We were lucky to have good candidates right outside our door. It’s been two years since our start, and now we have a solid development team full of boot camp grads. Here are five keys to our success in building that team.

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8 Proven Steps to Transition from Developer to Business Analyst

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This is a very frequent request that we come across.

“I have been a software developer for quite some time and would like to learn about a new role. I am excited about a business analysis career, but I have no idea as to how to transition into the new role. “

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The Psychology of Innovation

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Who is really building applications? The answer might surprise you.

In a survey of 350 non-professional developers, Forrester research found that a significant portion of employees were also contributing to custom application delivery, even when not considered to be IT professionals (How To Harness Citizen Developers To Expand Your AD&D Capacity, Forrester Research, Inc., April 19, 2017). Whether or not app development was part of these employees’ job descriptions didn’t stop them from seeking out these opportunities.

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