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written by gunther gerlach-2009

Define your Sprint duration: A Sprint is a key when agile scrum process is implemented in SDLC. The Sprint defines the amount of time where a team will release a feature or list of features from a giving sprint backlog. This is an important decision. Scrum suggests 30 days, but they could a week if you estimate that will improve your team efficiency. The optimum Sprint duration depends on many factors. I suggest going back to your team and analyzing the perfect duration to be able of releasing a piece of software. I suggest 14 days, plus a planning day for your team and Stake Holders to create the product backlog prioritize requirements form different teams and, analyze the product burn chart. This will leave 2 weeks of intensive work and also, two Sprints a month.

Gunther Gerlach

written by gunther gerlach-2009

If we go back to the basics, I would define User Stories as a simple tool of communication to capture user requirements throughout a project based on the business requirements and stake holder’s needs. This is a perfect, easy and fast alternative to writing extensive requirements specifications to start developing. While the technical issues and integration problems are hard to find with a simple overview of the business or technical requirements, the user Histories give some time a better overview of the details by a simple and descriptive walk, step by step by every process.

Gunther Gerlach

There is an easy way to work with a team remotely and share documents from diverse sources like MS word, Excel, Power Point and many others, without failing in duplication of information or having different version of the same documents. This is an issue that it need to be fix and who better than Google with its online applications (SaaS: Software as a Service) running over their powerful grid and web services platform.

Watch this video and you will understand in few minutes all the benefits of working with virtual documents.

 

Gunther Gerlach

written by gunther gerlach-2009

Usually projects start very easy, everyone is exited and ready to work on it but in reality, for most of the player on those discovery and pre-design meetings, such as developers and designer, there is no much to do yet and they are focused on their current projects being carried out in parallel so, technical issues and integration problems are hard to find with a simple overview of the business or technical requirements.

Gunther Gerlach

RSS as simple as this!

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Please watch this very simple video below that describes RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to see how you can benefit from RSS subscriptions. By watching this video you will literally save hours of your time in the weeks (years) to come. As many of my friends and customers, this new technology may be unknown for you.

I recomend to spend a few minutes watching this video and finlay stop guessing what this technology mean…

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Gunther Gerlach

Software as a Service (SaaS), also known as on-demand computing, is changing the landscape of information technology in a profound way. By replacing locally managed stacks of networking, hardware, and software resources with an Internet-based utility, this model has changed how business applications are delivered, bringing new levels of ease, adoption, and success to the challenging area of enterprise software. And just as the evolution of the Internet affects almost all industries, the evolution of the on-demand model promises to change enterprise technology and to offer new opportunities for IT productivity and impact.

Gunther Gerlach