Feed The Valor

At some point i said was going to read a book called "Badass Making Users Awesome" by  Kathy Sierra. Well that day has I started it today.  My first thoughts of the book is that there is 286 pages of good stuff.  Well i was kids of wrong, I opened the book and start reading the prologue, like every good book has,  The first page has like 10 word on it and picture.  This is an adult picture book, I am hooked  This is my kind of book. Yes it has a bunch of pictures and a few words per page. but these are good words. I have started treading this book, again, sometimes when you start a  book and it is not the right time in you life. Some times the book does not fit or  the words do not seem to make sense.  So i started this book a couple of months a go and i was in that spot.   I was not open to the words in the book, but that I am restating the words seem to be jumping off the page. The Prologue in this book it title The Challen...

June 1, 2017 I was blessed get to go to a one day conference called Keep Austin Agile. This is a yearly conference held in Austin Texas. It has to do with all thing agile project management.  Which I am now apart of that world so I try to learn more all the time. One of the session at this years conferee was called "Its All About Me! The thing I took away from the session is this: "Everything I say and do is about me. It doesn't matter is I talk to you, about you, or through you. It's still about me. The other side of that is what I say and do is not about you, it's about me." I have been thinking about this, for a week now. i am not sure how this fix in to my life. Every week I go to a bible study the just looks at a chapter in a book of the Bible. We are currently looking at 1 Peter 2 in the new testament Today at the end of the chapter we where look at these verses: "21 To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leavin...

Well I am in IT, have been an IT pro for several years now.  Over a year ago now my mentor and boss walks in after a convenience and says something like : "  I want to do agile project development and I want to use Scrum to do it, I want you to be the Scrum Master and push use to do this" I replayed "OK when?" He said "ASAP" I said "OK I will start learning about Scrum tonight" So i went home and started really learn what scrum was about.  We have been toying with idea for several years now. I even started doing some to the practice my self with my boss not really knowing  it was Scrum. An example of this is every morning when he(my boss) walked in i would go to his office and give him a run down of what i worked on yesterday and my plan for today.  Basically i was giving him a daily stand up so about 2 weeks later we started our first sprint. Well that was over a year ago we are working on Sprint 27 our sprints or 2 weeks log.  w...