Hasan Jaffal Blog

Does Scrum Compromise on Software Design? Nop.

Jul

2014

The most interesting idea about scrum is that it allows us to have shippable products as soon as possible in the lifetime of the project. This will add the capability for software developers to get the client’s feedback as early as possible, what will prevent major changes and allow all the stakeholders to have a ...

On Time, Within Budget and Within Scope

Jun

2014

The project manager prime goal & objective is to adhere to time, budget & scope of a project. These three are main solid pillars on which a success of a project depends. Following discussion will make my views more clear: On time: Project manager should set an example by practice the importance of timeliness in ...

Agile Scrum Ceremonies and Sprint Retrospective Meeting

Jun

2014

Agile Scrum Sprint Retrospective makes it easy for the team members to estimate where they stand. The Scrum is a framework to manage project activities, which enables the team members to manage deliver faster, what requires the members to communicate and interlink more frequently. The entire team works as a solo entity to attain the ...

Agile Scrum – AUB 2014

Apr

2014

I had the chance to give two lectures for the Computer Sciences class at the American University of Beirut during this week, the sessions covered the Agile Scrum topic. My presentations covered the following topics: Project Definition: What’s a Project and What’s not? The Traditional SDLCs Agile Methodologies Scrum Process Scrum Roles Scrum Ceremonies Scrum ...

Lebanon Election Violence Risk Assessment Project

Jun

2013

The Lebanon Election Violence Risk Assessment (LEVRA II) Project is a set of mechanisms to analyse the dynamics that indicate the potential risk of violence during the 2013 parliamentary elections. The initial methodology (LEVRA I) was adopted during the 2009 parliamentary elections as part of the electoral assistance provided by IFES to the Lebanese authorities. ...

New Snake and Ladders 3D Android Game made in Lebanon

May

2013

A new Android version of the traditional “snakes and ladders” board game was released 2 weeks ago on Google Play. The new entry game app is developed by a local Lebanese company SoftThings. The first version of the game allows 2 modes to play: You Vs. CPU (traditional game): Race between the 2 players (you ...

Did You Know? The Unknown Known!

May

2013

It’s really weird how people think, please check this photo album to understand what I am talking about.

Organs Donation Presentation For Free In Lebanon

May

2013

That 2007 morning, I was in Africa and I was watching the news (like every Lebanese expatiate does), it was about Nahr El Bared war, where the Lebanese Armed Forces attacked the terrorist militia of Fath-El-Islam. One of the Lebanese soldiers was shot and needed a heart to live. They didn’t find the dead donor, ...

LaTeX or Microsoft Word for IT organizations? 8

$LaTeX or Microsoft Word for IT organizations?$

Feb

2013

We used to use Microsoft Word in all documentation work in our organization. Actually we are fine with it, and we didn’t think a lot of changing it, especially that Microsoft Windows is our forced operating system by the policies and signed agreements with Microsoft. A friend of I, Mohamad Jaber, suggested while having a ...

My Smartphone, My New Credit Card. Bye-bye Wallets

Nov

2012

The communication technologies are booming these days; new ways to communicate with everything around us are being introduced. Interaction is being redefined at such a rapid way which it’s hard to predict.