Hello freinds,

I was just reading through a job ad of a website where they mentioned they require the following knowledge

 

PHP

- MySQL

- CSS

- Javascript

- ZEND framework

- Memcached

- Object Oriented

- JQuery

- Agile / SCRUM

 

among these what are memcached ,agile ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached

Memcached is a cache server, you don't really need much expertize to use it. Agile is referring to Agile software development such as SCRUM wikipedia has a good overview of it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development

Agile is a web development methodology process. We use it where I work. Basically the scrummaster assigns enough work for a sprint (we use 10 days), all tasks (stories) are split between the team and given a number of points. Then every morning, the team would meet up in a scrum and talk about how many points are left fro each story, anything blocking them from finishing the task and other issues. The goal is to have visibility across the team, have an achievable tangible deliverable goal at the end of each sprint and overall improve productivity. It's definitely one of the more popular methodolgies for today's modern dev team.

Agile is a web development methodology process. We use it where I work. Basically the scrummaster assigns enough work for a sprint (we use 10 days), all tasks (stories) are split between the team and given a number of points. Then every morning, the team would meet up in a scrum and talk about how many points are left fro each story, anything blocking them from finishing the task and other issues. The goal is to have visibility across the team, have an achievable tangible deliverable goal at the end of each sprint and overall improve productivity. It's definitely one of the more popular methodolgies for today's modern dev team.

 

aka gives managers something to do. I've seen so many of these 'methodologies' over the years and most get in the way of any real work happening but does justify some people's positions.

I dunno zed, SCRUM is pretty good if done properly.

aka gives managers something to do. I've seen so many of these 'methodologies' over the years and most get in the way of any real work happening but does justify some people's positions.

 

Haha - +1 to that.

In my experience, most corporate work is acheived "despite" your manager rather than "because" of them.

if done properly.

 

Which is probably the phrase that most managers should be concentrating on.