Author: doronkatz
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Preparing for an Interview at Amazon Series: Phone Screen
I’ve been at Amazon for just under a year, at the time of writing, and as I approach my first anniversary, I reflect on how I got on this crazy, exciting merry-go-ride, they call Prime Video. I wanted to put… Continue reading
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Preparing for an Interview at Amazon Series: Assessments
I’ve been at Amazon for just under a year, at the time of writing, and as I approach my first anniversary, I reflect on how I got on this crazy, exciting merry-go-ride, they call Prime Video. I wanted to put… Continue reading
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Make Agile a stepping stone toward future fit adaptability | ZDNet
Analyzing the future through a crystal ball is not enough. Creating upfront, fixed plans doesn’t work. Instead, we need to be ready for continuous change, be adaptive, creative, and resilient, and adjust quickly with “just in time” planning and execution.… Continue reading
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InnerSource: What is it and Why You May Need It?
You most probably have heard of open source, a philosophy or mantra of source code that is made available and distributed freely for others to consume or modify and further re-distribute. According to Wikipedia: The term “open source”, as used… Continue reading
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Get Rid of Daily Standups and to Get Engineers to Update You Daily
As a project manager, one of the common challenges in your day-to-day work is having to extract timely and insightful status updates from engineers. In my experiences, one-on-one or in daily standups engineers are very capable of explaining their current… Continue reading
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What is a Sprint Spike, and When you should Use it
In agile speak, a spike is a special type of user story that is time-boxed for research purposes, a sort of an R&D exercise that is accounted for in sprint planning and capacity. This agile mechanism gives your engineering the… Continue reading
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Reasons Why you Need a Good Acceptance Criteria
What is a User Acceptance Criteria? User Acceptance Criteria or UAC, is the contract between the product owner and scrum team, letting them know what needs to be done functionality wise, in order to meet the user’s need and exit… Continue reading
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Convincing engineers to embrace tools like JIRA
If I had a penny for every time I brought in a new group of engineers to work on a project, and had to debate with engineers, on the merits of using a proper project management tool, beyond Trello or… Continue reading
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Formalizing a Project Charter
Something many PMBOK practitioners are familiar with already, but always worth honing in on, is the project or program ritual of formalizing a project charter. A project charter is the pinnacle of any project, it is the justification and mandate… Continue reading
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The three pillars of scrum
Most practitioners associate the tenets of the agile manifesto as the guiding principles in executing their scrum agendas. In this article, With the premise of Scrum optimized on empirical process control, I wanted to spend some time looking into the… Continue reading
