The past few weeks at GAIKU we hired 7 new developers. We’re building a strong team and I’m…
Remote and virtual teams are on the rise and our global workforce is closer than ever. As the number of virtual teams continues to go up, managers will have a new problem to tackle: creating and maintaining a strong team culture. How do you build personal connections…
Executive assistants play a very important role in the smooth functioning of any business organization. They perform countless of different tasks that help the organization achieve larger goals. If you work as an executive assistant, you can take…
At the end of every sprint, a scrum team will hold a meeting called the sprint retrospective. Usually, the scrum master facilitates this meeting. During this meeting the scrum team discusses the just-concluded sprint and determines…
Scrum mastery isn’t easy. The role of a scrum master is a challenging one. We’ve spoken to different scrum masters and made a list of useful scrum master tips to help you become a great scrum master. So, get ready to learn from the experts and be the best scrum…
Sometimes people send an invite for a meeting that has a vague subject line and no agenda or goal stated. These kinds of meetings won’t be very efficient and will cost more time than they should. That’s not what you want, right? So, if you’re organizing a…
In Scrum, on each day of a sprint, the scrum team holds a daily scrum meeting called the daily scrum or the daily standup meeting. These short, daily meetings are common in the Agile environment, but because they’re so…
Many employees not only feel they waste a lot of time in meetings, they also feel that most meetings are ineffective. How can we change this? You invest time in attending a meeting, so make sure you get the most out of it! Let’s take a look at meeting…
Even though we have meetings to discuss, decide, inform or collaborate in any other way, most meetings will run into problems at one time or another. Did you know that 37 billion dollars are wasted on unproductive meetings in the US every year? And that…
