As a Scrum Master, your role often feels like you're navigating a battlefield. Balancing the needs of the team, stakeholders, and the broader organizational goals can be a complex task. Surprisingly, many of the strategies outlined in Sun Tzu's ancient text, "The Art of War," can provide practical guidance for effectively leading agile teams. Here’s... Continue Reading →
Can AI Step into the Shoes of Scrum Masters and Project Managers? – An Experiment [Part 1]
In a world where the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) are expanding at an unprecedented pace, the intriguing question of whether AI can take on the roles of Scrum Masters or Project Managers naturally arises. To explore this possibility, I embarked on a fascinating experiment using a generative AI tool, ChatGPT 4, and data from... Continue Reading →
How I Hacked a Master’s Degree Project with Scrum: The Art of Managing a Diverse Team and Crushing Deadlines
As a Master's student in Health Informatics and Data Science, juggling a summer semester chock-full of demanding courses felt like trying to ride a unicycle on a tightrope. But the course that captivated me most? Management Healthcare Communication Systems, particularly its group project focused on "Enhancing Remote Monitoring for High-Risk Pregnancies." This isn't a tale... Continue Reading →
The Daily Scrum [Scrum Series]
The Sprint is like a chess game. The development team is using different pieces to achieve the Sprint Goal which is "Checkmate". It is easy to get carried away and want to take out all your opponent's pieces and not consider how each move may or may not get you closer to that checkmate. When... Continue Reading →
Landing Your First Job Without Experience
Another Sunday, as someone that might have been in the market for a minute I decided to write about something that I wish I read earlier. Hiring and interviewing people has given me a view of things from a different perspective and I’ll be answering one of the questions that might be bugging you. How... Continue Reading →
Mental Health In the Tech-Industry [A Data-driven Conversation]
Another Sunday guys, This post is to help people know they are not alone and educate others on mental health using this dataset I found online from a survey that was filled by employees in the tech industry. I will be focusing on employees in the United States because it had more data. You can't... Continue Reading →
18 Months Later [The Re-Introduction]
Another Sunday guys, it has been a minute. Said that a couple of times in a few of my previous posts. I didn't write for over a year and there was no particular reason for that. I thought about it a couple of times, why wasn't I writing anymore? What was the problem? Was it... Continue Reading →
Muda no nai gainen [The Lean Concept]
Another Sunday, welcome to your first Lean class. I am Sensei (Master) Oscar and I am a Lean Six Sigma white, green & black belt. So if anybody looks for your trouble, Run! In this post we will be talking about one of the fundamental Lean concepts called 5S (five-es) and how to apply it,... Continue Reading →
Is There Even A Recipe?
Hey guys, another Sunday. I just got my lean six sigma black belt and it was quite a task but that aside welcome to August. This post was inspired by Okpa (A local Nigerian food made from bambara nut and goes with a bottle of sprite). My mum and I wanted to make Okpa a... Continue Reading →
Some People Call Me Oscar Or Oscar-T
Hey guys, another Sunday. We are going to be seven months this week and I thought, "Why don't I introduce myself?". This is not like a professional bio or an essay about myself, it's you getting to know me. My name is Oscar-Timothy Okolo and yeah "Oscar-Timothy" is one name. Some people call me Oscar... Continue Reading →