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″
Archive for November, 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
3 Nov
Need for matured developers in Agile Teams – A Myth
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 [...]
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 [...]
2 Nov
Key Do’s and Don'ts in Scrum
Even though there are several rules and practices in Scrum, but still they don’t cover all contexts. Practitioners keep coming back with several questions like, We don’t have a scrum master yet, can we make the Product Owner as the scrum Master ? Can we have a single Scrum Master for several projects ? and [...]
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