Part 5 of the Series: Increase your stock by investing in your future Mentoring students is rewarding, and has helped me become a more successful technology consultant. While it has presented challenges with regard to project timelines and client expectations, the outcome from these challenges has created an environment for students to grow, projects to thrive, […]
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Leveraging Learning Styles in Your Mentoring Relationships
Part 5 of the Series: Increase your stock by investing in your future Understanding and identifying learning styles is a key component in the mentorship process. Everyone learns in slightly different ways, and it’s not always easy to determine how best to work with someone whose learning style is different than your own. In this post, I’m […]
How to Mentor the Next Generation of Tech Talent
Part 4 of the Series: Increase Your Stock by Investing in Your Future Some people naturally form mentor-mentee relationships. For the rest of us, we must learn how to cultivate that relationship. Even if you are the mentor, you need to put in the effort. The mentor-mentee relationship is hard and throwing technology in is […]
Invest Now, Not Later: Growing Junior Developers
Part Three in the Series: Increase Your Stock by Investing in Your Future Struggling to find qualified candidates for a senior technical position? Your company is not alone. The market for senior technical employees is drying up. Searching the job market for individuals with lots of experience has become both tedious and difficult. This challenge […]
9 Methods to Get More from Your Agile Adoption
Getting started with Agile is straightforward; succeeding with it is challenging. You can’t just introduce a new approach, like Scrum or Kanban, and automatically gain all of Agile’s benefits. To really succeed with Agile, you have to adapt it to the specific needs of your team and your organization. That can be very difficult; most […]
9 Signs You’re Struggling with Agile Adoption
Your team adopted Agile to get better—to accelerate delivery and improve performance—but now that you’ve been at it for a few months, it doesn’t feel like it’s fulfilling the promise. You’re following the practices. You’ve got the routine down. You expected to transform to a new way of working, but it’s starting to feel like […]
The Manifesto for Scaling Agility
At Excella, we believe that continuous learning and knowledge-sharing fuels innovative thinking. The company created space – the time and the opportunity – for our Agilists to document their experiences with Agile at scale. The resulting product is the Manifesto for Scaling Agility: it’s a new way to approach the challenges of scaling, and I’m excited […]
Scale the Summit to AgileDC
AgileDC is almost here! Not only do we have 11 speakers representing Excella, but we are also premiering our Manifesto for Scaling Agility at next week’s conference. Below is a quick teaser of what to expect from the Excella Agilists behind the Manifesto for Scaling Agility, and our diverse selection of expert speakers. Manifesto for […]
Creating Blue Chips
Part Two in the Series: Increase your stock by investing in your future Blue-chip stocks have a reputation for being proven, experienced, well-known and dependable. Penny stocks also have a reputation, characterized as speculative, risky and cheap. If you want a stable financial future, it’s obvious that you would purchase as many blue-chip stocks as possible. […]
Best Tech Events for October 2018
Celebrate the start of Fall and cooler weather with us! Check out what our technologists are doing in the community and join us for an event this month: Kaizen: The Philosophy of Continuous Improvement Organized by: Washington DC Scrum User Group Monday, October 1st 6 PM – 8 PM Arlington Tech eXchange (Arlington, VA) Python […]
