Agile mindset
The agile mindset emphasizes adaptability and continuous improvement. Team members adjust their strategies based on new information rather than following rigid plans. Flexible organizations adapt to rapid environmental changes.
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My writing is rooted in systems thinking and communication sociology, with a tone that is professional, clear, and subtly provocative—encouraging teams and leaders alike to challenge assumptions and build better, together.
Agile
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Entry and exit criteria
Entry Criteria establish the conditions teams must meet before beginning new work phases or iterations. By meeting these requirements, upcoming tasks will be prepared and ready for completion.
Aborted work
Agile methodologies define aborted work as tasks, features, or projects discontinued before completion
Little's Law
Little's Law reveals fundamental relationships in operational systems. This principle connects three key elements: items in a system, their arrival rate, and processing time.
Cost of delay
Cost of delay in Agile development measures the financial impact of project postponement. This concept helps teams understand what happens when features or decisions are delayed.
Definition of ready
The Definition of Ready is a set of criteria for preparing work items before sprint inclusion.
Definition of done
The Definition of Done establishes completion standards that unite team understanding. It creates shared expectations for both quality and delivery requirements.
Thoughts
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Ideal
There is nothing in life which can make it worthwhile except an ideal.
Purity of Life
Purity is the process through which the life-rhythm manifests; the rhythm of that indwelling spirit which has worked through the ages in mineral and plant in animal and man.
Law of action
Every man is a sculpture of his own image. Every man is a creator of his own conditions, favourable or unfavourable.
Man, the master of his destiny
Destiny is not what is already made; destiny is what we are making. Destiny means the materialisation of man's own thought.
Stages on the path of self-realization
Every person has his own God. Let them all call God by any name, or think of him with whatever imagination they have. It is after all the highest ideal and the ideal of each one is as high as his imagination can make it.
Path of attainment
The secret of life is the desire to attain something; the absence of this makes life useless. Hope is the sustenance of life; hope comes from the desire to attain something.
Limitation to perfection
An artist wishes to bring out the best that is in him; therein lies his satisfaction. In every soul there is a longing to bring out, to bring to a culmination, what is waiting within.
Essays
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Autism and the Impact on Family
Autism is considered one of the most debilitating developmental disorders in psychology. The purpose of this essay is to contextualize family life and the dynamics of family involvement regarding autistic individuals.
Cultivation Theory and Law and Order
Using Gerbner’s Cultivation Theory with the show Law and Order, we can understand how this exposure to violence in television can make the audience feel that their world is more violent than it is.
Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding Model on Three iPod Advertisements
This essay will make the case for the utility of this model through an analysis of three Apple Inc. iPod advertisements via Hall’s concepts, arguing that his production-reception model is a useful approach to understanding modern mass media messages, especially advertising.
Don McKellar’s Last Night and Canada’s Popular Culture
As a Canadian film striving for its own identification among Hollywood’s entertainment apparatus, Don McKellar’s Last Night uses a recognizable Canadian style, tone and themes, and identifies itself, in the broader sense, against Hollywood.
Post-Fordism and Nike Inc—Sweatshop USA
This essay will assert that Nike Inc.’s organizational culture coincides with post-fordist industrial change by arguing the fragmentation and the pluralism of Nike Inc.’s employees.
Technology and the Call Centre
This essay will examine a call centre organization called CallMedia to discuss the many impacts that technology can have on organization’s culture.
Early Recollections Therapy
According to Adler’s Individual Psychology perspective, the meaning of individual behaviour coincides with their desire for either success or superiority (Adler, 1958).
Stories
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January 4, 1989 (Frankfurt, Germany)
I saw Henrich stomping on Eno’s groceries and laughing. It was quite a mess. I yelled out my window at the two boys and Henrich ran away.
February 26, 2007 (Burco, Somaliland)
The next morning we got up and went for breakfast. During the night our guards were changed. These guards were different.
August 18, 2016 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
I was looking in the bargain bins at backpack; that is when I heard Lotte scream. When I looked up, I saw the man grabbing Lotte and pulling her towards the exit of the shop.
August 23, 2002 (Ohio, USA)
My daughter and my truck are missing, and I think my friend took them both.
August 28, 2011 (Mutiara Damansara, Malaysia)
He shoved me down into the floor of the backseat. Waving a carving knife at me, he whispered again not to scream. The knife was old, but it looked sharp.
August 27, 2011 (Arizona, USA)
My daughter and my truck are missing, and I think my friend took them both.
April 15, 2017 (Colorado, USA)
My husband was a soldier. We don’t have any children and I work at the local library. Since returning from Iraq Steve was never really the same.