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A survey by home and office product company Brother International Corp. in April 2010 found that an estimated 38 hours per employee are lost looking for misplaced items in the office each year. – How to Clean Up Your Business, Entrepreneur.com We are building something. Something to solve problem like the above statement. We build something to [...]

I’m truly delighted when I see an article in Forbes website about the efficiency of using Scrum practise. For your info, Consoci8 has been adopting this method since our day one of establishment. The real question is: what can you accomplish if you execute Scrum well? The answer is now apparent with the results shown [...]

It’s been nearly 2 months since we implemented Scrum + Kanban at our workplace. In the beginning, we started out strictly on Scrum but we soon found out that for 3 projects running simulteneously with limited amount of people on our team, running 3 different sprints at the same time seems like a bit of [...]

We did the planning for our scrum-ban. We did it as per below: 1. Determine the prioritized user stories from the features backlog 2. Each owner of the process writes down their b/logs, in progress. For example, Asyraf would write on the sticky notes all projects determined as opportunities or confirmed. 3. Myself, as the [...]

Today we set up the scrum-ban wall and decided we going to have columns from project opportunities till deployment. Following to the mantra ‘Inspect and Adapt’, we want to continue the development portion of the process with scrum. Lessons learned from first sprint review, see image below; We are all very excited on starting the [...]

scrum and kanban

Last week we had the excellent opportunity to host the agile, XP planning game at Plug and Play in Midvalley, KL. We had a lot of fun, and from what we saw after the game, so did the participants – it’s a great ice breaker, and great learning tool to understand the complexities of XP [...]

ahh… the good ol meetings… i used to think meetings kinda wanna make you feign sick and take leave… (then go and watch a movie… but that’s a different story…) We just did the Sprint Review and Retrospect meetings for one of our projects. took us about less than 2 hours… we’re a pretty small [...]

The wall is now up and moving! We skipped some processes in setting this up, cause, well, the development was already on way, but it did clear up some stuff for us… Can’t give you the project topic yet, more on the project itself soon. but you could probably get an idea from the wall… [...]