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8 Nov
Test your knowledge on Scrum
Ken Schwaber, co founder of Scrum has come out with an online program to assess Scrum Knowledge.This assessment checks purely “What” scrum is all about.
Here is the link to the program with the password
http://www.scrum.org/scrum-assessment/
password : “assessment2″
8 Nov
Agile Project Management Tools
During the early days, while Agile methods popularity was still at infancy, there were hardly one or two project management tools that catered to the needs of Agilists. Nowadays, I hear atleast a new tool almost every other week. I thought let me list them out here.
The following list has both Open source/freeware and commercial tools and the listing is not in any particular order.
1. Rally
2. VersionOne
3. XPlanner
4. Extreme Planner (Don’t get confused with XPlanner mentioned above)
5. Mingle from thoughtworks
6. TargetProcess
OpenLogic in turn has done a nice work of comparing the following(7 through 10) 4 open source Agile PM tools
7. AgileFant
8. IceScrum
9. Agilo
10. eXplainPMT
11. SilverCatalyst
12. GreenHopper with JIRA
13. Agilebuddy
14. WoodRanchTech
15. PivotalTracker
16. BrightGreenProjects
17. XPlanner+ (Thanks Sezam20 for referring this tool)
Additional Information
You can also get additional details for some of the above tools from here.
Mike Cohn maintains the list of Agile PM tools here . (Thanks Phil for sharing the link)
Feel free to share the names of any other Agile PM tools that you might have come across and is not present in the above list.
4 Nov
General Motors plans to cut 10,000 jobs at Opel and Vauxhall units across European region.
General Motors plans to cut around 10,000 jobs at its European division Opel, GM vice president John Smith said on Wednesday after the US auto giant announced that it would retain control of the unit.
GM wants to slash costs by 30 percent at Opel, a European unit that employs 55,000 people, Smith told European journalists during a telephone news conference.
Opel also has production plants in Spain, Belgium, Poland and Britain, where it operates under the Vauxhall brand.
4 Nov
Microsoft layoffs 5800 employees this year. 800 more job cuts than planned earlier.
Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it is cutting a further 800 jobs across its operations, on top of 5,000 jobs already eliminated under a plan to reduce costs that was announced in January.
A spokesman for the world’s largest software firm said the latest job cuts are spread across the company’s global operations, but about 200 are in and around its headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft originally had planned to cut 5,000 jobs, or about 5 percent out of 96,000, before June 2010. The Microsoft spokesman said that plan has been expanded with the new layoffs and is now complete, well ahead of schedule.
As of Oct. 23, Microsoft had 91,005 employees worldwide, according to its website.
Courtesy www.reuters.com
3 Nov
Mergers in pharmaceutical industry kicks off series of layoffs. Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Wyeth, Schering-Plough and Merck & Co announced more job cuts.
Johnson & Johnson said it would eliminate as many as 8,200 jobs, or 7% of its work force, to help the company cope with what it expects will be a slow economic recovery amid damped demand for drugs, medical devices and consumer products.
J&J said the planned restructuring will eliminate 7,000 to 8,000 jobs and generate annualized cost savings of $1.4 billion to $1.7 billion by 2011, with $800 million to $900 million expected to be achieved in 2010.
During J&J’s last major restructuring, in 2007, it cut 3 percent to 4 percent of its workforce, generating annual savings of $1.3 billion to $1.6 billion.
The restructuring is the latest in the pharmaceutical industry. Pfizer Inc., which recently acquired rival Wyeth, and Merck & Co., whose takeover of Schering-Plough closed Tuesday, expect to slash 15% of their combined work forces and save billions of dollars from the deals. The Pfizer job cuts would total 19,500, while Merck’s would number 15,930.
Courtesy www.wsj.com
3 Nov
RBS plans to cut 3,700 more UK jobs
Royal Bank of Scotland said it would be forced to sell more assets than it had expected and axe 3,700 jobs from its retail business as another radical shake-up loomed for Britain’s banks.
European competition authorities are set to force RBS to sell its insurance arm and over 300 branches, and shrink investment banking operations, according to people familiar with the matter.
RBS said it was consulting with staff and representatives over a restructuring of its retail banking division which would see 14 percent of staff at its 2,268 British branches losing their jobs.
The cuts come with RBS having already shed 16,000 of its 165,000 staff globally since October 2008, including 10,000 jobs in Britain.
The bank said it had 30 percent more staff carrying out administrative duties per customer than competitors in Britain but was under-invested in its branches and customer infrastructure.
Coutesy uk.Reuters.com
3 Nov
HSBC plans to cut 1,700 more UK jobs
Europe’s biggest bank HSBC Holdings is cutting over 1,700 jobs in Britain, adding to thousands of cuts across the industry in the last year as pressure builds to reduce costs.
HSBC said 1,726 jobs are being cut, mostly due to a restructuring of branch network management and a consolidation of its collections and cards operations. Most cuts will be in Southend and Southampton. The cuts came a day after Royal Bank of Scotland said it was axing 3,700 jobs in its retail business, and adds to 1,200 cuts in HSBC’s UK bank operations in March and 500 in December.
Unite, the union, slammed the latest cuts and estimated HSBC has now cut 4,600 UK jobs.
HSBC employs about 40,000 people in the UK Retail Bank and had 325,000 staff globally at the end of last year.
Courtesy www.wsj.com
3 Nov
Need for matured developers in Agile Teams – A Myth
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I have heard many times from in-experienced scrum coaches saying Agile projects need matured team members. |
The Big myth
The above statement is as big a myth as the one which says Agile projects follow no documentation
The answers I got…
I had asked one of those in-experienced scrum coaches the following questions,
What do you mean by Matured team members ?
Why do you think Agile projects need more matured team members ?
The answers surprised me a lot, the answers were
Matured team means, a team with more experienced people
They also say that the junior developers mis-use the freedom and trust shown in Agile projects and so, they are not suitable !!
Does maturity comes with Age ?
My view is, maturity to a person does not come with age or more experience at work. Secondly, concepts like self organizing and self managing teams need the fundamental value, trust to succeed than any software development skill or experience.
I strongly believe that, individual team members shouldn’t be blamed. This is because, the culture followed within the team is strongly influenced by the person leading the team.
According to the greatest thinker, Peter Senge,
We must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems. We must look at the underlying structures which shape individual actions and create the conditions where types of events become likely
So, if a junior team member is not doing his/her assigned job, instead of blaming him/her, we should look at the system which is driving this character within them.
Conclusion
Success of Agile projects does not depend on the experiences of the team members but on the fundamental value driving the system.
3 Nov
Capgemini is planning to hire 3000 in Bangalore in near future.
Capgemini is planning to add upto 3000 staff in India with the opening of a new business information centre in Bangalore.
The Bangalore centre will take the company’s India headcount beyond 21,000, an increase from its employee strength of 20,000 in home country France.
According to the company, the new centre in Bangalore would start with a workforce of 1,000, which would scale up to 3,000 in about 18 months.
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