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Feeling nomadic? Check out this startup

May 8, 2016 — Leave a comment

If you have always felt encumbered by your current property lease which keeps you far too long in one place – the world after all is for us to travel – then check out this new startup ROAM who’s proposing a new way for you to lease living spaces.

They are already operating in Madrid, Miami and Bali and plan to expand to 8-10 locations by 2017. They are not offering remote residential lease. They are giving us the experience of co-living with a shared community, something which is very crucial when we moved to a new place, especially one that’s far away from where we are.

Read more about them in this FastCompany write-up about ROAM.

In Community, Inspire startup, travel

21.8.2013 Agile Malaysia August 2013 Meetup

March 13, 2014 — Leave a comment

Agile Malaysia August 2013 Meetup
Venue: MYOB Bangsar South

Back in August last year, the instalment of the Agile Malaysia meetup returned to MYOB’s office in Bangsar South. On the agenda for the night was 1) sharing of some takeaways from the Agile Lean Penang trip, and 2) introduction of Lean Coffee to the group.

In Agile, Community, Work agilemy, intel, lean coffee, myob

26.2.2014 QAKL First Meetup of 2014

March 7, 2014 — Leave a comment

QAKL is a group of QA enthusiast, started by Chong Fong Kai (2012) and they meet monthly to share anything related to Quality Assurance or Testing. Last Wed was their first gathering to kickstart 2014 and I was there to check out the crowd and explore how MYOB could contribute to this community.

In Agile, Community, Work agile, iproperty, mudah.my, myob, qakl

23.7.2013 Agile Lean Penang (Intel)

January 29, 2014 — 1 Comment

The Agile Malaysia meetup group received a surprised invite from Joseph Chee about an Agile Lean Conference happening up north in Penang on the 23rd July last year. Not much details were initially forthcoming except we knew there would be a few external speakers – Michael James (Collabnet), Nagendra Kumar (McAfee) and Evan Leybourn – and a number of internal speakers from Intel all set for this event.

In Agile, Community, Work agilemy, collabnet, intel, lean

Agile Malaysia June 2013 Meetup

January 11, 2014 — Leave a comment

Agile Malaysia (Facebook) is a meetup group started by Andy Kelk back in 2011 (when he was at iProperty). It went through a hiatus in 2012 until I met up with Andy to discuss about kickstarting this meetup group again.

Our rationale and purpose behind reactivating this group is simple; as proponents of the Agile (& Lean) movement as the approach to build high performing software development team, both of us understood in order to have a talent pool of Agile developers in the local market (and to grow this talent pool), we first have to start a community of practice of likeminded individuals to engage in a process of collective sharing & learning of each other’s experience along the AGILE journey.

In Agile, Community, Work agile, agilemy, Experian, myob

TedXKL 2013

July 19, 2013 — Leave a comment

When I came across this event, I’d thought I was late to the party. Glad they’ve sold only about 2/3 of their 1,500 seats. 🙂

TED is well-knowned for it’s inspiring webcast which have touched most of our lives. I like TED because it’s not a technology-centric community and you don’t get to hear just IT fellas talking on a stage (not that I’m saying IT fellas are boring).

It’s thru TED I discovered Daniel Pink and his book “DRIVE“. If you are looking for a book that explains how to drive intrinsic engagement & motivation in an individual, you should check out his book or better still, just watch this TED webcast from Daniel.

In Community, Inspire ted, tedxkl, yasmin ahmad