New Orleans Writers Workshop Recap | Surprise!, Or How To Get Started (01/28/2023)

09 Nov

I want to share the activities of a poetry workshop, New Orleans Writers Workshop titled Surprise!, or How To Get Started, I participated in last year. As I perfect my writing craft, I enjoy exploring and learning different mediums of self-expression. At the of age nine, and greatly influenced by hip hop emcees, I became mesmerize by shaping words into images in rhythmic form. However, as an uneducated youth of hip hop culture, I was unaware that rap is poetry to a beat. But, as I matured, I learned to love poetry and what it has to offer the human soul and experience.

M.A.C.S [book]: Mentors, Advisors, Coaches & Sponsors | Chapter 2 – A Tale of Two ‘Mentors’ :: Brush It Off

03 Nov

For chapter two of our M.A.C.S [book] series, we will focus on Mentors. In A Tale of Two “Mentors”, I will demonstrate through parables of my college and entrepreneurship journey, lessons I learned by having two female mentors. Chapter 2 – A Tale of Two “Mentors” is comprising of three separate sub sections: When to Brush Things Off, How or When to Terminate or Take a Break in a Relationship and lastly, The Necessity of Open Communication. In “When to Brush Things Off” section, referred to as Brush It Off, we will discuss why and how not to become immersed in minuscule occurrences and lose sight of having mentorship in your life. A Mentor should be beneficial in your personal and/or professional development. You should have multiple mentors throughout your life because individuals have different skills and expertise. People’s knowledge and experience are not interchangeable; thus, you can learn and acquire a plethora of knowledge and wisdom from others with various backgrounds.

M.A.C.S [book]: Mentors, Advisors, Coaches & Sponsors | Chapter 1 – Roles, Relevance, & Realness

28 Oct

In our M.A.C.S [book]: Mentors, Advisors, Coaches & Sponsors series, we will define each role, discuss how each role can be instrumental in your entrepreneurship success, and how to locate or identify these people in your life. Throughout the series, I will state important lessons or takeaways that can benefit you. In this first chapter, we will introduce and define our M.A.C.S acronym, its relevance and the three qualities each role must possess to be effective.

Scrum Framework: The Definition of Done

19 May

Scrum Framework: The Definition of Done provides an explanation of how to determine a scrum team’s definition of done for user stories and bugs. By having a team’s agreed upon definition of done it permits a Scum team to know when items are releasable. Within a course titled Scrum Framework: Definition of Done, this linguistic-written-works-of-artz {L.WWoA} provides the five levels of planning, evolution of product scope, definition of done in product development, variations of defining done, creating a definition of done, definition of done and the Sprint goal, and lastly, the definition of done and empiricism.