How can we believe that we can achieve everything what we want to?
“If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.” said Danis Waitley. Probably you have been reading many times or hear that what you believe you can achieve, but it is easy to say it, but much harder truly believe.
We are setting new challenging goal, we decide to do something that no one do before and my question is... what to do to beyond doubt believe that it is possible to achieve??
Scrum is an iterative and incremental agile software development framework for managing software projects and product or application development.
Understanding SCRUM in 10 minutes :-
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Scrum Methodology
For many developers in the software industry, the agile methodology is nothing new. Most folks know that agile was a direct response to the dominant project management paradigm, waterfall, and borrows many principles from lean manufacturing. In 2001, as this new management paradigm began to pick up momentum, agile was formalized when 17 pioneers of the agile methodology met at the Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah and issued the Agile Manifesto. Their manifesto is now considered the foundational text for agile practices and principles. Most importantly, the manifesto spelled out the philosophy behind agile, which places a new emphasis on communication and collaboration; functioning software; and the flexibility to adapt to emerging business realities.
But for all of the strides the Agile Manifesto made in revising a philosophical approach to software development, it didn’t provide the concrete processes that development teams depend on when deadlines — and stakeholders — start applying pressure. As a result, when it comes to the nuts and bolts of running a team with agile every day, organizations turn to particular subsets of the agile methodology. These include Crystal Clear, Extreme Programming, Feature Driven Development, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), Scrum, and others. At my organization, we use Scrum and I’ve found it to be an incredibly effective management methodology for everyone involved, including developers and stakeholders. If you’re interested in learning about the other agile methodologies, there are plenty of resources out there. This blog is designed to provide some essential background for those who are new to Scrum.
What’s Unique about Scrum?
Of all the agile methodologies, Scrum is unique because it introduced the idea of “empirical process control.” That is, Scrum uses the real-world progress of a project — not a best guess or uninformed forecast — to plan and schedule releases. In Scrum, projects are divided into succinct work cadences, known as sprints, which are typically one week, two weeks, or three weeks in duration. At the end of each sprint, stakeholders and team members meetto assess the progress of a project and plan its next steps. This allows a project’s direction to be adjusted or reoriented based on completed work, not speculation or predictions.
Philosophically, this emphasis on an ongoing assessment of completed work is largely responsible for its popularity with managers and developers alike. But what allows the Scrum methodology to really work is a set of roles, responsibilities, and meetings that never change. If Scrum’s capacity for adaption and flexibility makes it an appealing option, the stability of its practices give teams something to lean on when development gets chaotic.
The Roles of Scrum
Scrum has three fundamental roles: Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and team member.
Product Owner: In Scrum, the Product Owner is responsible for communicating the vision of the product to the development team. He or she must also represent the customer’s interests through requirements and prioritization. Because the Product Owner has the most authority of the three roles, it’s also the role with the most responsibility. In other words, the Product Owner is the single individual who must face the music when a project goes awry.
The tension between authority and responsibility means that it’s hard for Product Owners to strike the right balance of involvement. Because Scrum values self-organization among teams, a Product Owner must fight the urge to micro-manage. At the same time, Product Owners must be available to answer questions from the team.
ScrumMaster: The ScrumMaster acts as a facilitator for the Product Owner and the team. The ScrumMaster does not manage the team. Instead, he or she works to remove any impediments that are obstructing the team from achieving its sprint goals. In short, this role helps the team remain creative and productive, while making sure its successes are visible to the Product Owner. The ScrumMaster also works to advise the Product Owner about how to maximize ROI for the team.
Team Member: In the Scrum methodology, the team is responsible for completing work. Ideally, teams consist of seven cross-functional members, plus or minus two individuals. For software projects, a typical team includes a mix of software engineers, architects, programmers, analysts, QA experts, testers, and UI designers. Each sprint, the team is responsible for determining how it will accomplish the work to be completed. This grants teams a great deal of autonomy, but, similar to the Product Owner’s situation, that freedom is accompanied by a responsibility to meet the goals of the sprint.
At the first what is the AD? Active Directory (AD) is a directory service created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. It is included in most Windows Server operating systems.
Active Directory provides a central location for network
administration and security. Server computers that run Active Directory
are called domain controllers. An AD domain controller authenticates and authorizes
all users and computers in a Windows domain type network—assigning and
enforcing security policies for all computers and installing or updating
software. For example, when a user logs into
a computer that is part of a Windows domain, Active Directory checks
the submitted password and determines whether the user is a system administrator or normal user.
Active Directory makes use of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) versions 2 and 3, Kerberos and DNS.
Active Directory is a special-purpose database — it is not a registry
replacement. The directory is designed to handle a large number of read
and search operations and a significantly smaller number of changes and
updates. Active Directory data is hierarchical, replicated, and
extensible. Because it is replicated, you do not want to store dynamic
data, such as corporate stock prices or CPU performance. If your data is
machine-specific, store the data in the registry. Typical examples of
data stored in the directory include printer queue data, user contact
data, and network/computer configuration data. The Active Directory
database consists of objects and attributes. Objects and attribute
definitions are stored in the Active Directory schema.
You may be wondering what objects are currently stored in Active
Directory. In Windows 2000, Active Directory has three partitions. These
are also known as naming contexts: domain, schema, and configuration.
The domain partition contains users, groups, contacts, computers,
organizational units, and many other object types. Because Active
Directory is extensible, you can also add your own classes and/or
attributes. The schema partition contains classes and attribute
definitions. The configuration partition includes configuration data for
services, partitions, and sites.
[Editor's note: Wireless is all the buzz but good old copper and fiber-optic cables link most of us together, as this graphic from last year's Guardian newspaper shows.]
The vast majority of the world’s communications are not carried by satellites but an altogether older technology: cables under the earth’s oceans. As a ship accidently wipes out Asia’s net access [in 2008-ed], this map showss how we rely on collections of wires of less than 10 cm diameter to link us all together.
We get a lot of question a bout search by phone extension in Lync client.
The issue with searching for extension is
related to the Lync server in “Enable User” and not with the Active Directory.
In order to be able to search for extension you need to set up the extension in
the Lync server when you enable users. Please follow the steps below alongside
with the screenshots:
1-Go to the Lync control panel and access “Voice Routing” <“Dial Plan”. Then you
can create a new Normalization Rule or edit the current one. You can name it
internal extensions. Add the values as it shows below:
2-Secondly, you will need to access “Users” from Lync control
panel and add the extension of the user following the format shown in the
screenshot below:
3-We have updated the extension this way, and here how it
shows on the Lync client when I search for extension No. 3008 that was just
updated for the user, Kerols Saniout:
With regards to searching for extensions, if
the user does not show up for example after searching for “Kerols extension ” then you
will need to force Lync Address Book Synchronization:
