...TRAVEL……. Preliminary Consultancy Report (Update) Of Developing An Agile/Adaptive Organization by Concentrating HR Capabilities Perspective: Malaysian Airlines Prepared by Anupam Mazumdar Vidya Md. Mohsin Zaki Derrick Bungo Malaysian Airlines TIME TO TRAVEL……. ADOPTED APPROACH & METHOD JUSTIFICATION THIS REPORT IS BASED ON MALAYSIAN AIRLINES IN WHICH INDUCTIVE CONTEXT WILL BE DEVELOPED BY USING DIFFERENT SOURCES SUCH AS JOURNALS, ARTICLES, COMPANY DATABASE, COMPANY & CASE STUDY WEBSITE, COMPANIES ANNUAL AND LATEST REPORT REPORTS OF OTHER HOMOGENEOUS ORGANIZATIONS (RITCHE ET AL., 2014) CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION (HOW HR CAN ADOPT AGILE/ADAPTIVE APPROACH) WILL BE DERIVED FROM MALAYSIAN AIRLINES DATA, INFORMATION, FINANCIAL STATEMENT, PRESS RELESE, FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS OF PAST AND PRESENT STATUS OF MALAYSIAN AIRLINES (SILVERMAN, 2014) Malaysian Airlines TIME TO TRAVEL……. THEORIES THE FOLLOWING THEORIES WILL BE USED TO IDENTIFY THE KEY ISSUES OF MA THEORIES ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü PESTEL ANALYSIS SWOT ANALYSIS PORTER’S 5 FORCES CULTURAL AND LEADERSHIP STYLE OF MA (HARD & SOFT) KNOWLEDGE BASED VIEW & RESOURCE BASED VIEW FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS BLUE OCEAN STRATEGIES STRATEGY GROUP MAP SEVEN “S” MODEL KEY ISSUES ü COMPANY PROFILE OF THE MALAYSIAN AIRLINES ü CURRENT STATUS OF THE THE MALAYSIAN AIRLINES ü CURRENT STRATEGIC POSITION OF MALAYSIAN AIRLINES ü CURRENT HR PRACTICES IN MA ü STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS ü RISK ANALYSIS ü COMPETITIVE...
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...for Succeeding with Agile “Understanding the mechanics of an agile process is just not enough. Mike Cohn has compiled a superb and comprehensive collection of advice that will help individuals and teams with the intricate task of adopting and adapting agile processes to fit their specific challenges. This book will become the definitive handbook for agile teams.” —Colin Bird, Global Head of Agile, EMC Consulting “Mike Cohn’s experience working with so many different organizations in the adoption of agile methods shines through with practical approaches and valuable insights. If you really want agile methods to stick, this is the book to read.” —Jeff Honious,Vice President, Innovation, Reed Elsevier “Mike Cohn has done it again. Succeeding with Agile is based on his experience, and all of our experience, with agile to date. He covers from the earliest days of the project up to maturity and offers advice for the individual, the team, and the enterprise. No matter where you are in the agile cycle, this book has something for you!” —Ron Jeffries, www.XProgramming.com “If you want to start or take the next step in agile software development, this book is for you. It discusses issues, great solutions, and helpful guidelines when scaling up in agile projects. We used the guidelines from this book extensively when we introduced agile in a large, FDA-regulated department.” —Christ Vriens, Department Head of MiPlaza, part of Philips Research “If making the move to agile has always baffled...
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...Replacing PeopleSoft Using the Agile Methodology Development January 8th, 2015 IT Project Manager Group F’s College of Technology Mid-West, USA 12345 College President Group F’s College of Technology Mid-West, USA 12345 Dear College President: Per the goals of the IT department our project: Replacing PeopleSoft using the agile methodology, is designed to replace the current software at our college. By doing this we will create a more time and cost efficient software program at our college that will be used throughout all our campuses. The new software will be maintained and updated internally which in turn will result in a reduction of expenses. We are hoping to start and complete this process within a year. Throughout the year our internal staff will gain the knowledge necessary to maintain and update the new software. They will also use the agile methodology to ensure that this process is done successfully. We also understand that this will cause complications at times with our means of communication between stakeholders and employees. Liaisons will be in place to communicate updates and other information to our stakeholders and employees in the case of complications. We are requesting your approval to start this project by the end of January 2015 once you have reviewed this project report. You will see in our report that requests for finances will be minimal as we own all of the hardware. We plan on using most of the existing hardware, if not all of it...
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...Agile development process implies short development iterations, and more spontaneous communications between involved teams, while Waterfall development process consists in linear tasks succession, and uses formal documentations between teams. Agile is thus more adapted to innovation development processes, since it allows to iterate and to adapt fast. When Pearson used a Waterfall approach, it was struggling to reach customer adoption, and was spending a lot of money and time in upgrading Successmaker, as stated by Adams-Woodford: “We have spent 30 million on the new SuccessMaker development and even six to eight months after launching the first version, it has not been well adopted by the market” (p3). By adopting an Agile approach, Pearson realized the following benefits: Fitted-to-market product development. Waterfall process implied that development team was making all decisions, not product management. However, product management teams are the ones in contact with customers, and analyzing the market and its trends. As a result, the products developed were pushed to the market, and the feedback from customers were coming too late in the process. On the contrary, when adopting Agile process, the product management team is the one handling the product and its evolution. This way, the product is fitted to the customers, since product management teams know the market and its expectancies in depth, and can accordingly push features that are creating most value for the customers...
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...Traditional Project Management vs. Agile Development with Software as a Service projects Introduction The purpose of this entry is not to define Agile development methods (there's more than enough of that out there already), but rather to identify the characteristics of a company that is properly implementing and seeing positive results from Agile Project Management. When an SaaS project is initiated, those who are responsible for building the invention are among the most important people to the business during that time. They must be treated with the kind of dignity and respect that demonstrate the impact they have on the success of an SaaS initiative. Traditional Project Management Analyzing the problem-solving characteristics of a company's Executive Officers will tell you a lot. More specifically, what you are looking for is the level by which they do or do not value and honor traditional means of solving problems. The second major characteristic to look for is the existence of a process or strategy that religiously used as an approach for resolving every problem that comes up. Chances are, with this kind of leadership at the very top, you will usually find what - at first glance - appears to be an orderly, hierarchical structure to the way that tasks are delegated. You will usually also notice a disconnect between the lower-level management such as having a clear understanding for design requirements, for example. In other words, a developer might get a different answer...
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...of Human Skills 19 Lack of Systems Thinking 20 Recommendations for Leadership Development 21 Lead with Humility (Level 5 Leadership) 21 Engage in Interactive Leadership 22 Practice Authentic Leadership 22 References 23 Organization Overview The focus of this section is to provide a description of the Software Engineering and Development (SEAD) organization at MCG, the leadership practices of the company’s CEO, and the link between the CEO’s leadership practices and the SEAD organizational culture. This department and leader were chosen for two reasons. First, the SEAD organization underwent many changes over the past 3 years due primarily to the CEO’s leadership decisions, including a complete reorganization to align to Agile methodologies, and an acquisition to Hearst. Second, political forces governing healthcare and innovations in IT management due to cloud computing, in the same timeframe, had tremendous impact to the healthcare industry as a whole, the MCG company specifically,...
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...Scrum is the best agile methodology used today. features are written from the perspective of end user therefore features--->known as user stories Collection of all user stories-->product backlog Into a particular release which user stories v r gng to put resp of Product owner makes sure that the right features make it into the product backlog rep the users n customers of the product,she helps consider the direction of the product resp of Scrum master-->project is running smoothly, every member fulfills their job,sets meetings and monitors the work being done and facilitates release planning other team members Developer build the product Tester test it to make sure it runs smoothly Customer use it n hopefully pay fo it executives u cant build any product without them Release Planning Strt with product backlog n identify the user stories thy want to put in release. these user stories thn become part of release backlog the team prioritizes the user stories and allocates time for each story so thy get a rough idea of time taken for estimated work lots of techniques for creating good estimates Estimates: some prefer estimating in story points where estimates are made relative to building a small component with a known level of a known level of difficulty. Story points dont estimate when will my product ship so v go to estimate work in hours--> 1,2,4,8 hrs for smaller items and 2,3,5,10 days for larger items(9 day work will go to 10 day bucket ) ...
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...whether the student has completed prescribed courses 5. Approval from the respective course coordinators 6. Final billing made on the student to make payment of his fees. In this entire process one has to understand what the needs of the student are and then we need to bill him as per the requirements of the course which he is bound to enroll. There should not be blind system of billing everybody without any purpose. Hence in this case the validation of subjects and needs has to be clarified at all instances. Appendix B 1. When should you use an Agile method, and when should you use an engineering-based method for developing a system? Support your answer Agile methods are adaptive in nature. Their nature is to welcome and adapt changes. And also the agile processes focus on people rather than process so in a case where a system to be developed is about to change rapidly and also depended upon the persons; the agile methods must be a good approach. Also the documentation part is too less in this case. Engineering processes are predictive in nature and they do not support changes and also they are process focused. So when there is a system that will remain stable for a long period of time engineering approach is good...
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...Agile Methodology Brian Crites System Analysis and Design July 16, 2012 Summer Term B 2012 Professor David A. Ostrowski Agile Methodology is an approach to project management that for the most part is used with software development. Agile Methodology is a very important part of software development. Throughout this paper I intend to discuss what the movement toward agility means for the future of systems analysis and design (Hoffer, George, & Valacich, 2011). In the year of 2001 many proponents met in Utah and came to discuss and agree on underlying principles (Hoffer, George, & Valacich, 2011). Through this discussion they came up with the “The Agile Manifesto” (Hoffer, George, & Valacich, 2011). There is very important information listed in the Agile Manifesto as you can see from the information I have provided, according to my textbook, below. “The Manifesto for Agile Software Development Seventeen anarchists agree: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. • Working software over comprehensive documentation. • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation. • Responding to change over following a plan. That is, while we value the items on the right, we value the items on the left more. We follow the following principles: • Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and...
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...Inspiration from: When I was young, I never go out door and play with my fellow kids. The reason was I was scared that I would get hurt while I play. Then, one day my brother took me to the nearby ground. I was watching the boys playing Cricket. All of sudden I heard a loud noise, it is because the whole ground was cheering for a boy who reached the strikers end to take the strike. And realized the reason for the cheer that boy had no legs. The very first ball he faced, he sent the ball to the boundary. I was shocked and just observed him closely. He can’t run as like others and comes to ground on his wheel chair but still manages to play cricket. I found from others that he met with an accident couples of years back and lost his both legs be. As a grown up person now, I could understand “How did he managed to play cricket without legs”. The change he understood, the change he adapted, the technique he developed, the change he made to himself…. It is true and evident that you can’t live every day in the same style. Change is Eternal. If the person in the above story had thought, it is going to hurt him if he tries to play cricket after the accident, then he will be just called as Handicap. But now, he accepted and fought the battle and won. His name is 'Aghoram'. It has truly inspired me in many ways; in fact I have started playing outdoor games. Being in IT industry for these many years, I have realised most of the IT industries were stick to the traditional...
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...February 2013 IMPROVING THE MANAGEMENT OF COST AND SCOPE IN SOFTWARE PROJECTS USING AGILE PRACTICES Mariana de Azevedo Santos1, Paulo Henrique de Souza Bermejo2, Marcelo Silva de Oliveira3, Adriano Olímpio Tonelli2, Enio Júnior Seidel4 1 2 3 Mitah Technologies, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil mariana@bsi.ufla.br Department of Computer Science – Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA) bermejo@dcc.ufla.br, tonelli@dcc.ufla.br marcelo.oliveira@dex.ufla.br 4 Department of Mathematical Sciences – Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA) Universidade Federal do Pampa (UNIPAMPA) ejrseidel@hotmail.com ABSTRACT While organizations want to develop software products with reduced cost and flexible scope, stories about the applicability of agile practices to improve project development and performance in the software industry are scarce and focused on specific methodologies such as Scrum and XP. Given these facts, this paper aims to investigate, through practitioners' perceptions of value, which agile practices are being used to improve two performance criteria for software projects—cost and scope. Using a multivariate statistical technique known as Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), the results suggest that the use of agile practices can be represented in factors which describe different applications in software development process to improve cost and scope. Also, we conclude that some agile practices should be used together in order to get better efficiency on cost and scope...
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...Answer the questions in the provided space (rectangle). The space will expand to accommodate your writing. Please use “Marriage at 30,000 Feet”as the basis for answering questions 1 through 5. 1. (35 points) Combining Continental and United Airlines is tremendously difficult, largely because of the enormous number of things two airlines may do differently. Employees from both Continental and United are working side by side to answer many questions. Will passengers board flights back to front or window, middle, then aisle? Will miniature ponies be allowed? What information will be printed on a boarding pass? What direction will dog crates be faced when loaded in to cargo? Continental and United business architectures are unique to each company. Describe specifically what “the new United,” as a merged airline, must do to form the business architecture for the largest carrier in the world. Make sure you include in your description the role of standardization and integration in transition from the current As-Is to the emerging To-Be business model. | 2. (35 points) Information technology tends to be the thorniest part of an airline merger. The flight information systems and the passenger information system are critical applications (systems) supporting airline operation. Jeff Smisek, Continental CEO, was named the head of “the new United,” and he has heard a lot about cloud computing and virtualization. Mr. Smisek has learned that competitors are implementing cloud computing...
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...plan because of which Pearson moved from the traditional waterfall model to the new agile development methodology. Benefits realized in shifting from Waterfall to Agile 1. With the iterative and evolving approach, the agile methodology allowed Pearson to have a customer driven approach to development which allowed them to meet customer expectations in a more efficient manner compared to earlier. 2. Since the agile model focused on short iterative sprints, it helped in reducing the costs related to changes to the product features midway through the development cycle. 3. The agile model allowed teams in Pearson to adapt, design, and prioritize product features based on the feedback they received from product managers and customers. 4. Another advantage that Pearson realized was that using the agile model made the process backward scalable. In other words, it became easier to develop the software as the requirements kept coming in from the customers. Despite the advantages that Pearson realized from moving to the agile model, there were also some downsides that Pearson faced when they shifted from the waterfall model to the agile development model. Downsides associated with shifting to Agile 1. In the waterfall model there were clear lines between what developers did and what QA engineers did. These lines had blurred after adopting the agile model. 2. In order to adopt the agile model, Pearson had to put in efforts to transition all offshore software development...
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...Cost Planning: There are various types of costs involved in a project fixed, variable, direct, indirect, and sunk. Fixed costs do not change. Whereas, variable costs fluctuate throughout the life of the project. Direct costs are those that come directly out of the budget and are often seen as outsourcing or contracting expenses. Indirect costs are often shared expenses across various projects. Sunk costs are costs that bring no value to the project, often a result of a mistake or a result of something going wrong in a project. Due to lengthy projects, I have never personally encountered the cost involved, but I am interested in if anyone has personally dealt with sunk costs and how this may have affected the overall budget or outcome of the project. Earned Value Analysis: I also found when researching the history of EVM that there are 32 criteria that are used to determine an organizatin performance with Earned Value Management Systems. There are 5 categories with a total of 32 criteria. It's an interesting read because so far there is a relationship to the chapters we have read so far. Category 1: Organization ( A lot around Work Breakdown Structure and organization of costs) Category 2: Planning and Budgeting (Scheduling, sequencing, time phase planning for the ability to measure costs against budget, budget against work packages, reserves and undistributed budget.) Category 3: Accounting Considerations (Work Breakdown Structure, Direct costs, indirect costs...
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...|Title: |Scrum down to get a project moving. | |Authors: |Bradbury, Danny | |Source: |Computer Weekly, 9/4/2007, p30-32, 2p, 2 Color Photographs | |Document Type: |Article | |Subject Terms: |SCRUM (Computer software development) | | |METHODOLOGY | | |COMPUTER software development | | |COMPUTER programming | | |PROJECT management | | |BECK, Kent | | |ROBERTSON, Struan ...
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