Zuricka - The Digital Startup Web Girl

It’s strange but true that people on a job like to be appreciated and loved. They all want a sense of belonging. Recently while working on a project I noticed for some god damn reason people from my team working on other projects would come up to me and confide in all work related issues. [...]

How do you go about estimating your time on a project for gathering requirements for a specific project? This gets a bit tricky.
How much detail of the project is already know, how complex is the project, what is the technology used, what current system would have impacts on this project, how much time and effort [...]

The only way to do that is to cut the Mammoth into small slices. Slices should be like the regular cheese slices that we use on our sandwiches, these slices should be small enough because the sole purpose of cutting this Mammoth is to make it possible for humans (business users) to eat it.
Besides there [...]

A few months back when I was working on a project a thought cross my mind about, would a company require an Agile Business Analyst / Project Manager or a Person who had a combination skill of Both? A few years back, I would have said “No, you don’t”. Today for the web the whole [...]

Most problems with productivity today is because there are a few key issues (at least in my experience). These are:

If your organization portrays to be flexible, but the people complain day in and out about Change Request, how cumbersome the applications they work on are then don’t put in an inflexible IT system and/or IT [...]

A year back I was involved in visiting a few vendors for web application development in New Zealand and India. It was weird when vendors spoke about their development methodology and why one is better than the other. I asked myself and a few of my guru friends the same question whether it mattered if [...]

Lyssa Adkins has been coaching Agile teams and enjoys delivering software and process projects using Agile methods. In this video she tries to provide an overview of how Project Manager can make a team more productive. This is a Recording of a workshop given at the Scrum Gathering. Enjoy!!!

Lyssa Adkins has been coaching Agile teams and enjoys delivering software and process projects using Agile methods. In this video she tries to provide an overview of how Project Manager can make a team more productive. This is a Recording of a workshop given at the Scrum Gathering. Enjoy!!!

I can speak from what i have observed and these are a few observations that i have made over the course of my career. In this post i try to highlight the key points for every successful project manager. These are basic common sense statements but rarely practiced by project managers. The points listed below [...]