Delmar Hager

My Simdesk experience

I lead the development team and contribute to the team in the development of Simdesk Organizer. We use the Scum methodology to manage the project. Because of the team’s success in meeting goals while using Scrum, agile development methodologies are used company wide. 

What was really exciting was to see the Scrum methodology adopted company wide at Simdesk. Because of the success of our team I was able to train and mentor other team leads, managers and corporate executives to use Scrum. This lead to increased productivity and better communication among the teams, support, product managers and upper management. Goals are well defined and consistently meet.

My role is to keep the team focused on project priorities and work with the product owner to make sure we have software products the meet requirements..As a team we delivered the Simdesk Organizer 3.0 product in 9 months. The Organizer product is built from the Mozilla Thunderbird code base. Starting with technologies such as XPCOM, XUL, CSS, XBL, DOM, RDF JavaScript, Mozilla framework, which none of us had any expertise in, we were able to deploy a new Personal Information Manager that exceeded company expectations. To view this product, you can created account on www.simhouston.com (it is free and ignore the part of needing a library card) and install the Simdesk Organizer product.

Also take a look at these websites

Linux World review

Simdesk Organizer Overview/Help

Personal expertise was developed in CSS, Javascript, XBL, HTML, XML, XPCOM, DOM and RDF.  

Endorsements

Justin York - Simdesk “Del's leadership was instrumental in bringing agile methodologies to our development team. While transitioning to scrum, I often consulted with Del about how to handle things in the scrum framework. Once our team was fully running on scrum, I felt that we were at least twice as productive as we had been in the past.” (April 13, 2006)	Clint Talbert - Simdesk “Delmar brought SCRUM to a fragmented development organization. His continual drive to push forward with this methodology as well as keeping the teams focused around their sprint goals enabled the applications team to transform itself into a stunning cohesive unit, one of the most productive development teams in the company.” (April 13, 2006)
Mike Hovis - Simdesk “Del always managed to keep the team on task in regard to process and project. His push towards Scrum at both Pervasive and Simdesk was an excellent maneuver that resulted in much greater productivity.” (April 6, 2006)	Eric Eaton - Simdesk “Delmar is an outstanding lead developer and Scrum master. His understanding and passion of Agile methodology (especially Scrum) was a huge asset to his team as well as other development teams that interacted with Delmar. Delmar is clear headed and quick thinking. He can understand complex project management issues and teamwork dynamics with ease.” (April 6, 2006)
Matt Willson - Pervasive Software “As Delmar's manager for over a year, I was very impressed with the simplicity of his designs, the quality of his software, and the tenacity he brought to problem solving, especially customer issues. Delmar provided strong leadership for the developers who worked under his tutelage.” (April 6, 2006)	Steve Mook - Simdesk "Del is experienced,enthusiastic and tenacious - an excellent team lead with expertise in UI design and development and Scrum project management. He is willing to learn new technologies, challenge assumptions, take risks, and be accountable for results. His skill and leadership would benefit any team that seeks to improve its ability to deliver value to customers and to the business."