Posts tagged ‘Sabbatical’
Women in Agile: The Changing Face of Agile – Session Notes
In this post, I will share my notes on a presentation about Women in Agile given for the Agile Alliance.
In this video, Natalie Warnert, the chair of Agile Alliance’s Women in Agile Initiative, explains the background behind the program. Then Cindy Morse, VP of Engineering Operations at Salesforce Marketing Cloud discusses her involvement and experiences in the greater technology community. This workshop is part of the Women in Agile Initiative.
– Description from the Agile Alliance web page. (more…)
Visual Studio Code: Use, Build, Improve
An Open-Source Project
In a previous post, I mentioned that I plan to participate in an open-source project as part of my sabbatical activities. After looking at quite a few projects, I found one that I believe will give me the experience I want- which is to get firsthand understanding of software development work-flow and practices in an open-source project.
A Cross-Platform Code Editor
The project is Visual Studio Code. VS Code is a lightweight, cross-platform, coding editor that supports plug-ins. It’s not an IDE, although with the right plug-ins it can give you all the power of a modern IDE. It is very similar to Sublime Text or Atom. In fact, it is built on Electron, the same framework used by Atom. (Electron is a framework for building desktop apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.) (more…)
Open Source Machine Translation Projects
Why I want to contribute to an open-source project
I’m looking for an open source projects for machine translation of natural languages that I can contribute to. My motivation comes partly from my sabbatical project– one part of the project is to manage an open source project. No, I’m not looking for a project to take over. I just want to get some experience as a contributor before I manage a project. Another part of my motivation comes from my long-term interest in linguistics and translation- my master’s degree is in Linguistics. And, I’ve started getting sucked in by the exciting stuff happening now in machine leaning. (more…)
Agile Sabbatical
I am currently on sabbatical from Lane Community College studying the current “best practices” in Agile software development as they are being applied in the local software industry. I am conducting this study by:
- Reading current literature on Agile methodologies
- Visiting software development teams at local companies to do observation and interviews
- Applying what I learn to managing a software development team on an Open Source software project
Is It possible to run a 100% Remote Team?
At QCon 2015, in SanFrancisco, Jeremy Edberg gave a presentation on remote teams. In this post I will summarize what he said about the pitfalls they’ve run into at his company, the parts that are working well, and a summary of their research talking to other fully or partially remote teams. (more…)
