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James Nyagatare
James Nyagatare

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Agile methodology and stress management

Greetings,

This week started way different from others we did not have the team building session as usual instead we started the week with a project management session having Joseph leading it, the session was really educational. Joseph worked us through software different project stages and how they may be prioritized in the software development lifecycle. We also get to know different methodologies that can be followed when developing software, we saw that agile methodology is the best over waterfall methodology as agile produces the minimum viable product through the use of scrum iterations. We also get to know more about the roles in agile projects like the PO, Scrum Master, and team members and how they contribute to the project. We also dived into agile stories, sprints, and key behaviors of the scrum team.

This week we were also blessed to have an interesting and fun session with Axel talking about stress and resilience, personally sharing the story of my most stressful moment where I was trying to finish up my university studies, and joining Andela at the same time made me think the way I used resilience to deal with that stressful moment and stood again towards my goals, Axel also gave us some hints on how we can train and practice resilience like creating stressful moments for ourselves in tough time settings to get to know how much things we can achieve in a given time. We also talked about resilience elements which was a good experience mainly with the connection part where we identified 25 people who are connected to us and identified who can be of help and whom I can help.

In technical skills, we upskilled WordPress this week where I enjoyed learning its beautiful features.

This week was relaxing, fun, educational, and interesting. It was a career-boosting week I really enjoyed it. I am looking forward to the next weeks

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