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Agile Scrum Training Toronto – Are There Benefits to Customized Labs?
One of our value added services is the option to include custom lab activities within our private Agile Scrum training offerings. This means the subject of the lab is an actual software development project scenario provided by the customer. Thus providing the participants with a case study based on their own context of work and [...]
We Eat Our Own Dog Food! – Agile Scrum Training Success
Since our last post, Our Clients Asked and We Delivered! Scrum Boot Camp Training. We have facilitated the Agile Scrum Boot Camp Toronto a number of times for a variety of customers. We wanted to share an update on the course success. Net – Promoter Score (NPS) The post mentioned above describes how we use a feedback form based [...]
Our Clients Asked…We Delivered! Scrum Boot Camp Training
Jan 31 – Feb 1, 2012 we executed our Agile Boot Camp training offering for the first time and are excited about the results! Our client, an online retailer, was the first to experience the course instructed by our own Rod Bray, Certified Scrum Master and software architect. The participants were a combination of software developers, quality teams and business analysts. This was the perfect audience to test [...]
Agile Training (Boot Camp) in Toronto added to WFS service offerings
I wanted to introduce a new course we launched today called Agile Boot Camp for software delivery teams. We recently reviewed the Toronto market for Agile training and what we found some great Agile Scrum and Scrum Master Certification training. But we could not find any courses that were focused on both Agile and software [...]
5 Tips for the daily Scrum
Things You Must Do In a Scrum Meeting Scrum Meetings – those 15-minute “stand up” meetings that we do every morning – are a simple, powerful tool to keep your project moving. But it’s easy to go off the rails and lose the effectiveness of these meetings. I’ve listed five tips that we can emphasize [...]
IBM Innovate Comes to You – Toronto
Agile’s Role at IBM’s Software Development Conference IBM Canada recently invited Web Financial Solutions (WFS) to participate at an IBM Conference called Innovate Comes to You. This conference is a smaller local one-day version of a much larger five-day conference that occurs once a year in Florida called “Innovate.” It’s IBM’s way to bring some of the larger [...]
Agile Burn Down Chart – an executive dream tool
The lack of meaningful metrics is one aspect of software development that has always baffled me. This lack of metrics causes project issues to simmer without action. The business dimension that suffers is “predictability” – or delivering functionality on time. Recently, I was invited to attend a project ‘stand up’ meeting or Scrum meeting. A ‘Scrum’ meeting lasts 15 minutes [...]
Software Development Testing. What is the problem?
No one would argue that testing is important. But among the people that I speak with regularly the prevailing opinion is that it is never done enough. What is the problem?
Web Financial Solutions signs education partner agreement with IconATG
August 16, 2011 For Immediate Release Contact: John Munro Web Financial Solutions (WFS) (416) 505-4756 jmunro@webfinancialsolutions.com Toronto– August 16, 2011 – Web Financial Solutions, a leading information technology company focused on Software Development Life Cycle Process Improvement services to mid- to large-sized Canadian firms, today announced that it has signed an Education Partner Agreement with IconATG. [...]
Web Financial Solutions signs a professional services agreement with Boardroom Metrics
Web Financial Solutions, a leading information technology company focused on Software Development Life-Cycle Process Improvement to mid and large sized Canadian firms