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The Road to Cuba

The Opportunities and Risks for U.S. Business

Knowledge@Wharton

My Arduino journey starts here

So what is Arduino?

Arduino is a micro-controller board can do and sense more than your desktop computer.  The possibility is endless.  

Due to the hype of IoT, I will to learn more about the application rather than reading the news by using the "learning by doing" method.  Hence I decided to start some projects using Arduino 'cause it is cheap so as low risk even if I screw it somehow...

The video recorded a simple traffic light demonstrated built by 3 LEDs and an Arduino UNO chip that I brought from TaoBao and they are very cheap that the total was less $100 HKD.  So what do you think?

BTW, below is the book that I am currently reading.  It's very easy to follow that I highly recommend this book for those who just start to learn Arduino.

Spikes

"Spikes" is a special iteration that provides a timeout for the team to find solutions against technical issues or problems.

Hardening Sprints

Hardening Sprints are dedicated to resolving dependencies and fixing open bugs.

Self-organization Team

Self-organization works best when there are goals and boundaries. Select two requirements from the Scrum framework that are key for a Scrum master to teach teams to help them self-organize: 

a. Time-boxing events to manage risks 
b. Forming teams happens by the Product Ownder selecting each member 
c. Having an even number of team memebers to be able to do pair programming 
d. Creating a releasable Increment by the end of each Sprint 
e. Maintaining and preferably increasing velocity. 

Answer: a and d

Get Rid of Gridlock

Nowadays, companies are running projects to support their business strategies for growth and profits.


Gridlock: the project is stuck in a kind of limbo where no one wants to make certain key decisions, perhaps because then they’ll be blamed for the failure.