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If a pet owner detects a problem, a veterinary ophthalmologist can help. In Reno, Dr. Don Lavach, DVM, is one such practitioner, working out of Eye Clinic for Animals at 9720 S. Virginia St. He said about three-fourths of his patients combat eye problems using medication, while the rest need to resort to surgery. Early referral leads to a better chance of diagnosis, treatment and saving the animal's vision, he said.
Conditions such as glaucoma, if untreated, will lead to blindness. Genetics also can be a factor, he said, and some problems can occur at any stage in life.
Cats can have many contagious diseases that could affect vision, he continued. Old cats are prone to high blood pressure, which can lead to detached retinas. This can be treated with medicine and the retina can reattach itself, Lavach said. An emerging problem for cats that veterinarians are still learning about is Bartonella bacteria, a strain of which causes the disease known as cat scratch fever. If Bartonella is left untreated, it can lead to vision problems for the cat.
Costs for eye drops or other medicine can vary, Lavach said, and surgery can range from a few hundred dollars to several thousand for cataracts surgery in both eyes.
If the pet's eyesight goes bad or blindness set in, the animal's life is by no means over. Lavach said many animals lead excellent lives with their other senses.
The website www.blinddog.info offers some interesting tips for owners in this situation. One tip suggests keeping a radio playing softly in a single spot to help the animal with its bearings. Another tip is to scent vertical surfaces such as door frames or furniture so the animal gets close to the edge, he or she will smell it coming. Scents can vary from aromatherapy inside to cooking essences, wood oil, kerosene and pitch oil on outside surfaces. Different scents for good and bad areas is a suggestion, such as peppermint oil for good areas such as door openings or orange for bad places such as stairways. Never use too much scent, the site advises, and test the area first to see if there will be a stain.
The site also advises to watch for tripping hazards or items that could poke an eye both in the house or in the yard. Also be sure to secure the animal's area to prevent it from wandering off, particularly outside where vehicle traffic is an issue.
"Mostly it's common sense," Lavach said. "You don't want them running around across a hillside crashing into bushes."
While items that pose a danger should be removed, an environment that is as constant as possible will help the animal relearn its way around. Lavach and the online forum suggest keeping the animal in the same environment with as few changes as possible. People who like to rearrange furniture regularly may want to keep the same floor plan.
The website also notes personality issues a pet may have when it goes blind. These can include aggressiveness trying to hide blindness or trying to hold on to an alpha position; "hunger" because of the instinct of "Where's my next meal coming from?"; or jealousy for the attentions of their owner. The owner must remain in control, the site says. Lavach said the opposite can also be true: A more aggressive dog can become docile with the loss of its sight.
An area to watch out for, Lavach said, is in multi-dog households. The blind dog might learn to follow the dog with sight, which can be great but sometimes the seeing dog can get bumped the wrong way and see it as a sign of aggression, leading to conflicts.
Patience is key when an animal's vision loss is sudden, Lavach said. This traumatic change could take several months to overcome, depending on the pet's personality. The adaptation can also depend on the level of intelligence, he said. Smart dogs might not skip a beat, whereas "some are just kind of clueless," he said.
For those who do not want to take any chances, there is an interesting product on the market called the Littlest Angel Vest, developed by Dr. Dennis V. Hacker, a veterinary opthalmologist in El Cerrito, Calif. It is a harness fitted to the dog that holds a pliable loop in front its face — much like a football kicker's facemask — to provide resistance if the animal comes too close to an object. These can be ordered pre-made at http://littlestangelvest.com or there are instructions to make one at www.blindpets.com/harness/index.htm.
Lavach said he does many exams on puppies, especially those that are purebred ones. He records information that is then used by the Canine Eye Registry Foundation to try and help breeders identify and eliminate eye-related genetic defects in particular breeds.
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A sculpture that was supposed to show off a South Jersey township's patriotism is causing controversy tonight.
"They fought for the flag, they stood under the flag and they believe in the flag and what it represents," says Michael Andreas, past commander of the Mantua VFW.
The beautiful artistic creation, made of bricks and erected high into the air is supposed to symbolize the American flag proudly blowing in the wind. An artist, also a navy veteran, created it to honor fellow veterans. But many veterans are outraged by the design of the flag.
"I was surprised that happened," says Robert Dunn, commander of the Mantua VFW. "If they could just lift it up off the ground. That's all we're asking."
Look again at a picture and you'll see what he's talking about. The bottom of the flag sits on the ground, then gradually slopes up to a wall. People have complained about visitors walking on the flag and kids skating boarding on it.
"I thought that it was disrespectful," says Dunn.
Members of the Mantua VFW nearby are stunned.
"Perhaps the Veterans Committee that had been established for this park that was being installed should have been consulted before this plan went forward," says Andreas.
Many believe that the artist had good intentions with the monument. It sits at the entrance to the Veterans Memorial Park at Cornell and College Boulevard in Deptford. But John Brubaker, who just returned from serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom says it sends the wrong message.
"If a flag touches the ground, that flag is supposed to be cut up and burned and a new flag put in its place," says Brubaker. "You pretty much just dishonored that veteran right in front of him because that veteran takes the flag for granted. That's who we are."
Veterans who aired their concerns to the mayor worry that township officials don't understand.
"They didn't say we don't care, but it's kind of what it is. They don't care about it," says Dunn.
FOX 29 spoke to Deptford's mayor on the phone. He says the township is working with the artist to figure out what to do, so that no one walks on the flag. A meeting on the issue is scheduled on September 9th.
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Ctalk adds classes, methods, operator overloading, inheritance, and complex object expressions to otherwise standard C programs. Programs can use only a few Ctalk objects and methods in an otherwise standard C program, but the language can be used to write entire programs also. Ctalk works on most if not all of the systems that support GCC, the GNU C compiler. The package includes the language, class and run-time libraries, example programs, tutorial, and language reference.
Cego implements a relational and transactional database system with support for the SQL query language. The current release contains the most common database features for basic table manipulation and data retrieval. Indexes, foreign keys, views, and stored procedures are also implemented. Future releases (2.0 and above) will support a multi-node database concept with log file shipping for an automatic database application failover.
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TEA is a powerful and easy-to-use Qt4-based editor with many useful features for HTML, Docbook, and LaTeX editing. It features a small footprint, a tabbed layout engine, support for multiple encodings, code snippets, templates, customizable hotkeys, an "open at cursor" function for HTML files and images, miscellaneous HTML tools, preview in external browser, string manipulation functions, Morse-code tools, bookmarks, syntax highlighting, and more.
Seed7 is a general purpose programming language. It is a higher level language compared to Ada, C++, and Java. In Seed7, new statements and operators can be declared easily. Functions with type results and type parameters are more elegant than a template or generics concept. Object orientation is used when it brings advantages and not in places when other solutions are more obvious. Although Seed7 contains several concepts of other programming languages, it is generally not considered as a direct descendant of any other programming language.
Eric is a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in Python. It is based on the cross platform Qt GUI toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control. It is designed to be usable as an everyday quick and dirty editor as well as being usable as a professional project management tool, integrating many advanced features that Python offers the professional coder. Eric includes a plug-in system, which allows easy extension of the IDE functionality with plug-ins downloadable from the net. Current stable versions are Eric4 based on Qt4 and Python 2 and Eric5 based on Python 3 and Qt4.
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Richard Drayton, heir to a title and Captain of the 14th Light Dragoons, is summoned by the head of military intelligence and offered an assignment as a "courier", or spy, ahead of Wellington's advancing army. England's most trusted courier has been killed in action, and Richard is a likely, though inexperienced, candidate. Richard sees in this a chance to redeem his honor, as he joined the army only to watch out for his beloved brother Harry and was then unable to save him in battle.
Richard completes his assignment, but due to his own carelessness, is wounded in the back and in sent home to England to recuperate. He decides to visit his sister, Lady Sara Bennett, who is caring for Harry's children. Richard is now their guardian. He arrives at the estate in Kent to find that his little niece, Caroline, has a new governess: one Rachel Maitland Ross. Sara explains that Rachel isn't really a governess, but rather an old friend who is visiting and is merely assuming some governess duties while she is there. Richard's suspicions are aroused when he views Rachel's unconventional teaching methods. Just who is this woman?
Rachel is really Rachel Roth Meyer, niece of Eli Roth, one of England's richest bankers and a confidante of Wellington himself. Rachel's younger brother James is himself a courier for the government, and Rachel promised her father she would look out for him in her father's absence. But Uncle Eli wants Rachel to marry a cousin and go to Italy, and Rachel needs to hide out for several months, until her father returns. Sara has agreed to help.
Rachel and Richard clash in a battle of wits, but must soon unite when they are kidnapped and locked in a ruined church overnight. Someone wants to force them into marriage, but who? They manage to escape the marital trap, but then Richard catches Rachel returning from a midnight ride to the local village, where she has been passing French money to her brother. When Richard is informed by his superiors that a spy is working the coastal areas of Kent, he is sure Rachel is the culprit. But how can he arrest her when he is falling in love with her?
The action moves from Kent to London to Dover to France, and Richard and Rachel are caught up in the machinations of spies, counter-spies, and traitors. Rachel's brother James, code-named Nathanson, plays an important part in the last third of the story and is no doubt destined for his own tale. And Richard's best friend, who may or may not be a traitor, seems destined for a follow-up tale of his own.
Rachel's characterization is outstanding. Resilient and resourceful, from the outset she's honest and forthright to those she trusts. And she is eminently sensible, acting as a contact for her brother when there is no other option, but well aware she's not the best choice. This is one of the few books I've read where the heroine dresses in men's clothing and rides off to save someone, and I simply nodded my head and thought, "Yep, she's gotta do it."
For all that Rachel is Jewish, we never see her practicing her faith, which felt odd because it's this very background which provides the conflict between Richard and Rachel. Richard wants to marry Rachel, but she refuses, time and again, because her Jewish heritage would make them pariahs to the ton and to their families. She also tells Richard she would never convert. This was laudable. Yet if her faith is so strong, why do we as the reader never see it? Nevertheless, the author does an excellent job of detailing, through Rachel, the difficulties faced by an interfaith couple in Regency England.
Richard is portrayed as a man who is a bit of a ne'er-do-well, with the twist that he knows it and wishes to make something of himself. His relationship with his estranged father is powerful in its awkwardness, and felt completely realistic. Kudos to Ms. Abrams for showing her characters as people of many facets, rather than as cardboard cutouts. Even the high sticklers are ultimately human. My only quibble was Richard's leap in illogic when determining that Rachel must be the spy feeding information to the French, based on one incident - which Rachel has already tried to explain. Since she's the only person he can think of who might be hiding something, she must be the guilty party. This act of thickheadedness on Richard's part was necessary to push the plot forward, but he certainly lost some sympathy in the doing.
A Question of Honor is an absorbing, satisfying read. Nita Abrams puts her own unique twist on this romance, and it's a welcome twist, indeed. This one is definitely worth hunting for. I'll be looking for the next installment!
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The MOL provides students with a 21-credit hour core curriculum of in-depth leadership and organizational development topics combined with a 9-credit focused concentration in one of several areas followed by a 3-credit culminating project in which the student conducts research or an organizational intervention that incorporates all the course content of the program.
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The MSF allows you to study the future in the context of organizational decision-making. Designed for consultants as well as managers of strategy, HR/training, research & development, and marketing, our MSF degree will fine-tune your leadership abilities and help you discover how to position your leadership on the cutting edge of change.
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The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is designed for today's professional who operates in a global and rapidly changing environment. The graduate business degree addresses strategic opportunities produced by a global economy, entrepreneurial approaches to problem solving and capitalizing on new business ventures, as well as the growing need for ethical decision making. Firmly grounded in traditional business theory and contemporary concepts, our MBA program is further enhanced by the incorporation of Judeo-Christian values, which yield a balanced, Biblical perspective on global integration and effective business practices to help you successfully develop, execute, launch and lead new or expanded enterprises anywhere across the globe. This 42-credit-hour program can be completed in just 28 months of part-time study or 16 months of full-time study and gives you the flexibility of taking your coursework on campus or online. An optional residency provides opportunities for networking, attending major speaker events and being invited to present papers at future residencies.
- Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership
The Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership is a terminal, research-based multidisciplinary degree that is designed to equip leaders to influence the field of leadership through think tanks, scholarly research, academia and influential positions. A minimum of 60 credit hours is required beyond the master's degree to complete the Ph.D. It is, however, the demonstration of independent scholarly ability at the doctoral level, rather than the mere accumulation of credits, that is required to successfully complete the program.
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The Doctor of Strategic Leadership is an applied program that seeks to immediately facilitate the leadership abilities and roles of strategic mid-career professionals in organizations around the world. A minimum of 60 semester hours is required beyond the master's degree to complete the doctor of strategic leadership degree.
What is the difference in the Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership and the Doctor of Strategic Leadership?
Our two doctoral programs, the Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership and the Doctor of Strategic Leadership, are designed to meet the unique needs of today's professionals and emerging leaders. Below is a brief description of each program to help you determine which one will help you fulfill your professional goals:
- The Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership is a terminal, research-based, multidisciplinary degree that is designed to equip leaders to influence the field of leadership through think tanks, scholarly research, academia and influential positions. If you have an interest in the following, then we encourage you to consider the Ph.D. program:
- Teaching at the university or college level
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- Guiding others in the art of research, critical thinking and writing
- Developing and advancing leadership theories
- The Doctor of Strategic Leadership (DSL) is an applied multidisciplinary terminal degree designed to equip leaders and executives to comprehend and address the intricacies and challenges of organizational transformation. Our DSL program is best suited for those with an interest in:
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- Strategic planning
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What is the difference between the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership and the Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight?
- The M.A. in Organizational Leadership focuses on the human dynamics of an organization and, as such, studies the leader-follower relationship, organizational theory and human development. Moreover, it considers developmental aspects of teamwork, leadership and organizational change that lead to improved organizational effectiveness and fulfillment of its defined mission.
- By contrast, the M.A. in Strategic Foresight operates on a "forward-looking" or vision-based understanding of leadership. Through methods such as forecasting and scenario development, it explores the leader's role in directing an organization in its relationship to external change and the larger society. The degree builds on applied research in strategic management, knowledge creation and organizational transformation to empower leaders to proactively guide their organizations through impending transitions. Both degrees relate to leadership; however, one focuses on internal aspects of building organizational culture, while the other focuses on how organizations adapt to changing external environments.
Does the School of Business & Leadership provide executive education?
The School of Business & Leadership at Regent University is uniquely positioned to provide a variety of leadership-oriented conferences, roundtables and events geared toward those at all levels of leadership.
What is organizational leadership?
Organizational leadership involves the following: leadership theories and principles applied in the workplace, structure of organizations, leading and motivating people, strategies, environment, values, ethics and systems.
Yes. Students are encouraged to enroll in at least one course per semester throughout their program. Please keep in mind that students must complete their degree requirements within five years of initial enrollment for master's programs and seven years for doctoral programs. Therefore, students will typically need to enroll for more than one course per term.


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"The love of the Lord." --Hosea 3:1
Believer, look back through all thine experience, and think of the way whereby the Lord thy God has led thee in the wilderness, and how he hath fed and clothed thee every day--how he hath borne with thine ill manners--how he hath put up with all thy murmurings, and all thy longings after the flesh pots of Egypt--how he has opened the rock to supply thee, and fed thee with manna that came down from heaven. Think of how his grace has been sufficient for thee in all thy troubles--how his blood has been a pardon to thee in all thy sins--how his rod and his staff have comforted thee. When thou hast thus looked back upon the love of the Lord, then let faith survey his love in the future, for remember that Christ's covenant and blood have something more in them than the past. He who has loved thee and pardoned thee, shall never cease to love and pardon. He is Alpha, and he shall be Omega also: he is first, and he shall be last. Therefore, bethink thee, when thou shalt pass through the valley of the shadow of death, thou needest fear no evil, for he is with thee. When thou shalt stand in the cold floods of Jordan, thou needest not fear, for death cannot separate thee from his love; and when thou shalt come into the mysteries of eternity thou needest not tremble, "For I am persuaded, that neither death; nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Now, soul, is not thy love refreshed? Does not this make thee love Jesus? Doth not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame thy heart and compel thee to delight thyself in the Lord thy God? Surely as we meditate on "the love of the Lord", our hearts burn within us, and we long to love him more.


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Over the holidays, I noted a growing trend on my social media feeds: They were full of fluff, and worse than that, often inaccurate fluff.
The attached headlines are usually enticing. What's beyond the click is amusing or irritating or heartbreaking or whatever emotion that the viral-content provider is aiming for. Its importance is debateable in the grand scheme. Its accuracy is usually suspect.
Don't get me wrong. I've embraced the digital revolution. I like fun. I'm capable of wasting too much time wading through click-bait.
However, I assumed, I'm not the only one noticing that all this viral content is growing. I wasn't. My wife pointed me in the direction of a piece on Esquire's website. (She'd probably come across it on her social media feed, but that's OK.)
The article by Luke O'Neil, a freelancer, is headlined, "The Year We Broke The Internet: An explanation. An apology. A plea."
"The media has long had its struggles with the truth — that's nothing new," O'Neil writes. "What is new is that we're barely even apologizing for increasingly considering the truth optional. In fact, the mistakes, and the falsehoods, and the hoaxes are a big part of a business plan driven by the belief that big traffic absolves all sins, that success is a primary virtue. Haste and confusion aren't bugs in the coding anymore, they're features."
O'Neil names names, including, "Upworthy, BuzzFeed, MailOnline, Viral Nova, and their dozens of knockoffs" that "have figured out: You don't need to write anymore — just write a good headline and point."
Doesn't matter if the information is inaccurate because there's online traffic to be had in promoting the alternate and supposedly accurate version after the falsehood has made a couple of laps around the circuit.
Does it really matter? Should we worry, for instance, that snow didn't fall on Egypt's pyramids last month, as several dishonest photos suggested in a digital hoax that went viral? What's the harm?
Writing in Esquire, O'Neil frets that "one of these days a fake news story is going to have some serious real world consequences."
My sense is that we'd all be better off with a more balanced diet. Sure, some sugar-laden empty calories are fine on occasion, but indulging breakfast, lunch and dinner will eventually make us sick.
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I'm also thinking of big stories that have a significant impact on our lives. Recent examples from December:
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All the viral content from across the globe found on Facebook, and other social media platforms, can't equal a local news organization's ability to fairly and accurately tell the story of a community.
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There are also 1.5 and second-generation fans like Sergei Miledin, 26, who edits an English-language site for fans of Russian players called From Russia With Glove. Miledin posts updates on Russian players in the NHL and elsewhere on the site and on Facebook, sometimes with endearing post-Cold War quirks, like referring to a player as the "comrade of the night" ("People have this weird perception that everybody in Russia calls each other 'comrade,' " he says).


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Sometimes, late in the night, the craving comes to me. I fight it, as I must, for the sake of decency and taste and everything I have strived for as a grown-up human being. I cannot...I will not...I must not...pour bottled Zesty Italian salad dressing over a heap of drained ramen noodles and slurp down the whole hot, harsh mess hunched over the kitchen counter in my bare feet. Even though (as I recall) it would be freaking delicious.
A few of my other college favorites:
- Boxed spaghetti with margarine (seriously - who could afford butter?), black pepper, curry powder and as much shake-on Parmesan cheese as I could spirit out of the pizza place in a napkin
- Boxed macaroni & cheese made with either the margarine or the milk (buying both at once wasn't in the cards most weeks) and as many mustard packets as I could get my paint-stained paws on
- Salad bar vegetables stir fried with peanut butter, duck sauce packets, white rice and an egg in my electric wok
- Baked potatoes with globs of cheap hot sauce or barbecue sauce mashed in with a fork
I'm ostensibly a grown-up lady now, one with actual metal silverware that didn't come as a supermarket giveaway, wedding china, cups not acquired at ballgames and fast food restaurants, and I swear I haven't hoarded condiment packets for at least a decade. But I can't say I'm not physically restraining myself from running down to the dollar store, nabbing the cheapest brick and bottle I can find, and shame-eating the whole concoction with the blinds down.
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28 Apr 2013 04:33 PM
Hi my name is Pablo and I'm currently working as a Scrum Master for a small company specializing in IT Solutions for the banking industry.
In my current project (the previous Scrum Master left) I noticed that the team has a bad habit in continuously adding more User Stories into the Sprint just to keep every developer occupied.
It's a team that consist of 1 senior developer and 3 junior developers who all started 6 months ago. (Limited technical and no domain knowledge)
When I joined the team as Scrum Master the first thing I did was ban the team for adding more Stories into the Sprint while others weren't completed. This of course led to big debates where the CTO started to interfere as well. In some way I can understand that it seems highly inefficient for (a couple of) team members to do nothing. I endlessly tell the team (and organisation) that by adding more Stories we lose more and more focus on the high priority Stories, but now I'm starting to doubt if this is actually true…
I was wondering how you guys look at this problem and what kind of argument you use against the team/CTO/PO/organisation etc.
Cheers, Pablo
Michal Krakowski
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29 Apr 2013 04:57 AM
Hi Pablo,
Not sure if I understand the whole situation correctly. My understanding is that during the Sprint the Dev Team adds user stories to Sprint Backlog based on high priority items in Product Backlog while other stories are not done just to make sure every developer is 100% utilized?
If my assumption is the case here, I would say the following might be true:
1. the Team needs coaching regarding Sprint planning - if the Team still under commits after they have been working for quite some time (6months) perhaps it would be a good idea to make them aware of their velocity (calculated based on 100% done user stories) during past sprints
2. the Team needs some coaching regarding helping each other and working together to get user stories done. Example: the Team selected user stories A,B,C,D for the Sprint and at some point A,B,C are done and they say they would like to pull E,F while one person (Joe) works on finishing up D. Perhaps it would be good to ask them if they think there's anything they could do to help Joe complete D?
Maybe my assumption above was wrong and your Dev Team 'invent' user stories without discussion with PO and add them to the Sprint?
Please let me know more about the situation and I will try to help.
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30 Apr 2013 08:11 AM
Hi Michal,
Thanks for your reply.
Your assumption is correct. Let me give you a concrete example:
The team consists of 4 developers which are 1 senior and 3 junior developers. The senior developer is have been working for the company since the beginning so knows the technology and domain which they are in. The 3 other developers are all relatively new, so no technology and domain knowledge.
Because of this, (as a result of the retrospectives) we as team have added an explicit "Review" column so that the senior developer can review all the implemented code.
Now the team pulled User Story A, B, C and D into the Sprint and while we are still in the middle of the Sprint the team "finished" the tasks of Story A, B and C. The Story isn't completed (yet) because they are all still in Review mode. (the column that the team introduce to limit bugs and optimize quality) So to finish the Stories the Senior Developer needs to do all review.
What should the other 3 developers do now? Story C isn't big enough for 3 Developers to work on. This is the moment where usually the PO, CTO, manager comes in and talk about being effective and having 3 developers doing nothing is NOT effective.
I usually play it strict and say "sorry, let's first finish every story before we pull in more work". Because this way we don't lose focus and who knows perhaps there needs to be some refactored after reviewing.
What would you do?
Charles Bradley
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30 Apr 2013 09:57 AM
> What would you do?
1. Ask the team... "How can we solve this challenge?" Have you asked?
2. How long has the team been doing Scrum? i.e. What is their level of Scrum knowledge? Are they Shu, Ha, or Ri?
Christiaan Verwijs
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30 Apr 2013 12:06 PM
I like Charles' response. It seems to me like the best you can do is discuss this in the team. My first thought is that your team feels responsible for their work, and wants to avoid wasting time doing nothing. In a sense, they're trying to optimize by picking up new work on their own volition.
But maybe their strategy is not such a good idea. Scope is fixed good reasons in Scrum, after all. It might actually break down the sense of being a team and being responsible together for delivering the functionality agreed on at the start of the sprint.
It seems to me like the best thing you can do is help the team work together more. That's often difficult. Some developers like to work on their own. They believe they are faster and more efficient that way. And sometimes they are. Or they feel that there is too much time pressure to 'share the burden'. But if they help other developers grow into their own jobs, the team as a whole will benefit greatly. Pair programming is a good approach. We do this a lot at our company; developers that cannot really join in, pair up with another developer and work on the code together. This might seem inefficient, but it's like having a real-time debugger sitting next to you :)
Ian Mitchell
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30 Apr 2013 01:40 PM
Hi Pablo
Scrum does not distinguish between senior developers and developers. There should be no skill silos and the team should be thoroughly cross-trained. In the example you give, the senior developer has become a bottle neck because only that person is doing reviews. Having a "review" column is fine, but any team member should be able to review another's work. The members of a Scrum team should go to where the work is, and collaborate to get work-in-hand completed before bringing new work in.
Rob Wesley
New Member
30 Apr 2013 08:46 PM
I have had success with giving developers stories that I knew they would finish in a sprint, along with additional stories that they could start if they finished early (or the first story was blocked for some reason). Knowing that these second stories would not be completely done and would be finished in the next sprint. This was in a regulatory environment that had a higher rigor of integration testing (done by system testing team, not developers) and more rigorous code reviews that created bottlenecks to having stories finished. It's probably not "pure scrum", and it takes discipline to make sure developers are truly getting the first stories as far along as they can before moving on to the next story, so that they aren't tempted to do "fun stories" instead of "hard stories", and it was very much environment specific (different areas of the product needed vastly different skill sets, with embedded developers, algorithm experts, etc.), but it worked, and kept all developers fully utilized. It also depends on how you are doing integration. I assume you aren't doing continuous integration, since the stories have to be reviewed before being finished.
I also think pairing people up with the senior developer to do the reviews to increase their level of experience would be useful. The sooner that the reviews can be done away with the better, unless they're required for some other reason besides checking work of less experienced developers.
This is a bit of a hybrid scrum / kanbanish but it's more important to have quality software than to be doing scrum exactly to the book.
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01 May 2013 01:41 PM
Let's pretend this is the current scenario. What would you guys do?
- A Scrum team of 4 developers.
o 1 Senior Developer who have the technology and domain knowledge.
o 3 Junior Developers fresh out of school.
- The team is in Sprint 3.
- The Senior Developer noticed that, although the 3 junior developers are helping out implementing the Stories, their code quality is really weak. Think of things like bad code practises, unnecessary classes, basically most of the implementations are not durable solutions. Due to this the team added an extra REVIEW column.
- The Senior Developer is owner of the REVIEW column because the 3 other Developers can't review each other's work due to lack of knowledge.
- Sprint 3 includes User Story A, B, C and D.
- We're halfway the Sprint and the team has completed Story A and B
- Story C consist of 1 task and that task is in the REVIEW column.
- Story D consist of 2 tasks. Story D has been estimated as very complex. The 2 tasks is so complex that the junior Developers can't work on it. Screw this up, and you'll have an operational escalation. (something dramatic!)
- All summed up: you have 3 Junior Developers currently "idle" and all the pressure on the Senior Developer to finish Story C and D.
What would you do as Scrum Master/ Coach?
Charles Bradley
Basic Member
01 May 2013 01:58 PM
> - The team is in Sprint 3.
Does this mean the team has only been doing Scrum for 3 sprints? What's the Scrum maturity of the team?
Who tests these stories?
New Member
01 May 2013 05:04 PM
That is correct. The team (organisation) is relatively new with Scrum.
The stories are tested by the Developers (when implementing the tasks) and by our PO when each stories are done.
Charles Bradley
Basic Member
01 May 2013 05:37 PM
While it is always helpful to consult the Dev Team on issues like this, respecting their self organization, it can also be helpful if the SM suggests some possible solutions.
In a coaching situation, and as someone who is a professional Scrum coach, I'd like to see you and your team come up with some possible solutions. I also get the distinct impression that you have some possible solutions in mind and you're looking to validate them against the advice given here.
So, would you be willing to share your ideas so far on how to solve?
New Member
02 May 2013 02:00 AM
I don't have a particular solution right now. That's why I'm posting it here.
I usually tell the team to finish all Stories before pulling more work. But I most say, I slowly doubt it this is the best way.
The given scenario is just an example and I'm curious in the solutions you guys have in mind. Purely from a coach / Scrum Master perspective.
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26 Nov 2013 03:31 AM
By looking at the date the question is posted, I may be late but I would like to comment anyway.
It is great that you have removed an impediment by adding a review column and it resulted showing another impediment in the team. As another person commented, your lead developer is the bottleneck and s/he needs help.
I agree that it is better if the team comes up with a solution so that they own it but if there is no suggestion or the suggestions don't work then you can simply try to suggest some solutions as well.
What I would do is to get the junior members get trained.
You can do it by pairing them. If a senior and junior member paired up and finished a task then the others can do the review. If two junior members did the task then you can facilitate a review session where other junior members and senior member review all together. Senior member should explain the code to the others and why s/he thinks that code has to change.
I would run this 3 sprints and then make the team responsible of reviewing each other's work. You should remove the review task from the senior developer and sometimes it is ok to deliver some stories with technical debts. Involve the PO to check the story asap and if s/he is fine with it the so be it.
Never forget that what a senior developer says is not always the best solution.
Fabio Simeone
New Member
27 Nov 2013 06:46 AM
I got a question for the group: If another story is added to the Sprint to keep the Devs busy, but they don't succeed to finish it before ending the Sprint, how can the Team keep track and don't waste the effort and coding that has already been done?
Ian Mitchell
Advanced Member
27 Nov 2013 08:42 AM
> If another story is added to the Sprint to keep the Devs busy, but
> they don't succeed to finish it before ending the Sprint, how can
> the Team keep track and don't waste the effort and coding that
> has already been done?
Any undone work should be discussed in the Sprint Review; any work that was done should be demonstrated for possible inclusion in the increment. The undone work can then be added to the Product Backlog so the Product Owner can prioritize it accordingly.
Usually undone work is carried over into the next Sprint, but this shouldn't be automatic. The right process is to add it to the Product Backlog, where the PO might choose to prioritize it into a different Sprint altogether, or decide not to deliver it at all.
Fabio Simeone
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27 Nov 2013 10:29 AM
Thanks again Ian!
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Note: This tutorial creates a virtual machine that is not connected to a virtual network. If you want a virtual machine to use a virtual network, you must specify the virtual network when you create the virtual machine. For more information about virtual networks, see Azure Virtual Network Overview.
A virtual machine in Azure is a server in the cloud that you can control and manage. After you create a virtual machine in Azure, you can delete and re-create it whenever you need to, and you can access the virtual machine just like any other server. To learn more, see Virtual Machines.
This tutorial shows you how to use the From Gallery method in the Management Portal to create a custom virtual machine. This method provides more options than the Quick Create method does for configuring a virtual machine when you create it.
Sign in to your subscription to use the Azure Management Portal. If you don't have a subscription, you can sign up for a free trial.
On the command bar, click New.
Click Virtual Machine, and then click From Gallery.
From Choose an Image, select Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter. (The available images may differ depending on the subscription you're using.) Click the arrow to continue.
If multiple versions of the image are available, in Version Release Date, pick the version you want to use.
In Virtual Machine Name, type the name that you want to use for the virtual machine. For this virtual machine, type MyTestVM1.
In Size, select the size of the virtual machine. The size you should select depends on the number of cores required to run your application. For this virtual machine, choose the smallest available size.
In New User Name, type a name for the administrative account that you want to use to manage the server. For this virtual machine, type MyTestVM1Admin.
In New Password, type a strong password for the administrative account on the virtual machine. In Confirm Password, retype the password. Click the arrow to continue.
You can place virtual machines together in a cloud service to provide robust applications, but for this tutorial, you only create a single virtual machine. To do this, select Create a new cloud service.
In Cloud Service DNS Name, type a name that uses between 3 and 24 lowercase letters and numbers. This name becomes part of the URI that is used to contact the virtual machine through the cloud service. For this virtual machine, type MyService1.
In Region/Affinity Group/Virtual Network, select where you want to locate the virtual machine.
To store the VHD that the virtual machine will use, accept the default setting of Use an Automatically Generated Storage Account.
Under Availability Set, for the purposes of this tutorial use the default setting of None. Click the arrow to continue.
Under VM Agent, decide whether to install the VM Agent. This agent provides the environment for you to install extensions that can help you interact with the virtual machine. For details, see Using Extensions.
Under Endpoints, review the new endpoints that will be created to allow connections to the virtual machine, such as through Remote Desktop and Windows PowerShell remoting. You also can add endpoints now, or create them later. For instructions on creating them later, see How to Set Up Communication with a Virtual Machine.
Click the check mark to create the virtual machine.
After the virtual machine and cloud service are created, the Management Portal lists the new virtual machine under Virtual Machines and lists the cloud service under Cloud Services. Both the virtual machine and the cloud service are started automatically.
You can log on to the virtual machine that you created to manage both its settings and the applications that are running on it.
Sign in to the Azure Management Portal.
Click Virtual Machines, and then select the MyTestVM1 virtual machine.
On the command bar, click Connect.
Click Open to use the remote desktop protocol file that was automatically created for the virtual machine.
Click Connect.
In the password box, type the user name and password that you specified when you created the virtual machine, and then click OK.
Click Yes to verify the identity of the virtual machine.
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On the command bar, click Attach, and then click Attach Empty Disk.
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The Quick Start page might be displayed instead of the dashboard and command bar. If this happens, click Dashboard from the top.
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Note: All disks are created from a VHD file in Azure storage. You can provide a name for the VHD file that is added to storage, but Azure generates the name of the disk automatically.
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Right-click Disk 2, and then click Initialize Disk.
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Right-click the space allocation area for Disk 2, click New Simple Volume, and then finish the wizard with the default values.
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An understanding of the shared common past of the Americas is crucial to an understanding of the future. When European explorers visited and conquered the Americas in the 14th and 15th centuries they found civilized societies, cities, and empires that had existed for many centuries and which in many cases were more sophisticated than their own. In the years following the conquests the intermixing of the indigenous peoples with the Europeans and the African slaves, the colonization by the Europeans, and the eventual revolutionary struggles for independence created a new world, unlike any the world had seen and rich with diverse yet similar cultures, political institutions, ideas, and people. Although the United States emerged as the dominant power in the hemisphere, the history and fate of the republics of the hemisphere and its peoples have been and are linked.
The Study of the Americas Program emphasizes the interdependence of the nations of the Western Hemisphere and focuses on their common past, present, and future by examining the historical context and the political, economic, and social issues that together tie Canada and the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean, Central and South America. The program also focuses on the diverse cultures and societies of the Americas, which however similarly evolved also developed differently to enrich the hemisphere with a distinctive diversity and heterogeneity to the New World. Rather than emphasizing a series of isolated events, the inter-American focus allows the student to study history as a process involving the evolution of societies from a connected past to a like though diverse present.
The Inter American Studies Program is valuable for students and community members who wish to examine and study the interdependent relationships between the history, economics, politics and cultures of the Americas and the world. The program is important for students who wish to obtain an interdisciplinary education with an emphasis on the humanities, social sciences, and language. Students in this major often choose to pursue graduate programs and careers in diplomacy, and/or non-governmental organizations involved with humanitarian and international development.
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All students are required to complete an upper-level internship in the major, including participation in the Action Learning Seminar; typical placements include settings such as local social service agencies, schools, service providers, and community action organizations. Each student also undertakes a 6-credit capstone Degree Project in the last two semesters to produce a substantial research-based project.
Every Bachelor of Arts degree candidate must complete Burlington College's General Education requirements and earn a minimum of 120 credits to achieve a degree. Beyond a limited number of required courses, the major in Gender Studies is highly individualized. A program of studies to complete requirements for this major would be developed by the student and his/her academic advisor.
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