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Hiring right to keep team performance high
Though processes and project management are key essentials for a project teams’ success, these are in no way an alternative to each individual’s personal efficiency. This becomes more important in Distributed Agile, where there are small teams and 2-3 weeks iterations. Hiring the right candidate in terms of aptitude, attitude and skills is becoming increasingly [...]
Tips to create an effective proposal
1. While writing the proposal keep in mind who is the audience. Is it a technical person, an end user, a finance guy or maybe a combination? Tailor it to suit their needs. This basic rule holds good for any document for that matter, always keep in mind who will read it.
2. A good introduction [...]
How to grow in an organization
I read a story in my high school English book written by a famous Indian author (I forgot the name) – There was an old blind man who used to work in a grocery store. He was very good at mathematics. He used to sit next to the shop owner. Whenever a customer bought goods [...]
A practical approach to project effort estimate
It’s called an estimate because it’s bound to change as the development progresses, and as both the partners (the customer and the service provider) get a better understanding of the project. The use of the word partners takes significant importance since mutual trust and understanding is necessary for a project to be successful. At CircleSource [...]
Process Training during Induction
It is a celebrated fact that software development is no longer an art but a science where results can be predicted to a high degree of accuracy, thanks to the processes or quality management system of an organization. The QMS of any organization is an integral part of its DNA, which predicts and maintains consistency [...]
Things that can hamper the success of a software development project.
In this blog I will talk about some issues that, from my experience, are detrimental to the success of a software development project.
1. Incorrect Effort Estimate – This is the one of the primary reasons of project failure. This generally happens because of one or more of the following reasons –
a. The [...]