Helping remote teams with embracing Agile principles & processes to build a collaborative environment. Faiza Yousuf provides you with some strategies to ensure that the team embraces the change with openness and fosters shared leadership. Faiza also discusses the importance of picking up the right tech stack and the inability of these tools to solve human problems.

Interview with Faiza Yousuf for the video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa) On this channel, you can find interviews with agilists around the world. All answering the same 10 questions.... Learn more about Faiza Yousuf: Faiza on twitter: https://twitter.com/FaizaYousuf https://FaizaYousuf.com Book: Who is agile the book edition https://leanpub.com/WhoIsAgile The seven habits of highly effective people: Dr Covey https://amzn.to/36jhKlP Lonely Castle in the Mirror https://amzn.to/3t5yIgl Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction 00:3:44 What is something people usually don't know about you but has influenced you in who you are? 00:5:19 If you had not been in IT, what would have become of you? 00:07:03 What is your biggest challenge and why is it a good thing for you? 00:12:14 What drives you? 00:20:06 What is your biggest achievement? 00:23:43 Do you have a personal agility tip to share? 00:26:02 What have you learned about remote working recently? 00:29:25 What is the last book you have read? 00:31:44 What question do you think I should also ask and what is the answer? 00:36:04 Whom do you think I should ask next? —————————————————————————————————————— My Links to Follow: Personal website - https://www.hanoulle.be Follow Me On Twitter - https://twitter.com/YvesHanoulle Buy my books on Leanpub - https://leanpub.com/u/YvesHanoulle Buy my books on amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Yves-Hanoulle/... Android Game I wrote with my son: http://www.anguis.be —————————————————————————————— DISCLAIMER: Links included on my videos description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. There is no additional charge to you! Thank you for supporting my channel so I can continue to provide you with free content each week!

In this panel Ellen Grove and Janet Gregory invite an illustrious round of guests to share thoughts on how the Agile approach will develop. Johanna Rothman, Alex Schladebeck, Faiza Yousuf and Claudia Badell shed light on the role of Women in Agile in different cultures and which challenges might still lie ahead.

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Empathy gives you the ability to understand your users and their context and also makes you more in-tune towards their needs and wants. For a person working in a product team, understanding users is an important part of their job and if you are a software tester, product designer, or product manager, this becomes the most significant part of your day-to-day duties. In this talk, we will discuss how empathy can help you understand your users better and create products that stick and delight their users. It helps in improving your underlying KPIs, like new users and user retention. More details: https://confengine.com/conferences/appium-conf-2021/proposal/15932 Conference Link: https://appiumconf.com

About this talk - “Taking the lead – Building psychological safety at work!” by Faiza Yousuf This talk is mainly about psychological safety at the workplace. I will talk about how building safety at the workplace is a leadership competency and how can you do that within your own teams. It includes some tips as well as a couple of book recommendations to learn more about the topic. Takeaways: - Understanding psychological safety - Why is it a leader competency? - Some tips on building safe teams - Books to start your learning journey Speaker Bio Faiza Yousuf is a technologist with over 11 years of experience in Product Development and has been a serial founder with a focus on initiatives related to gender inclusion and access to tech education. She is currently working with Genetech Solutions, leading their Product Development wing. She has also been running a consulting practice as a Product Management Expert for over 6 years and has clients across 5 continents. Faiza is a multi-award-winning community leader and is the founder of WomenInTechPK, the biggest tech community for women technologists in Pakistan, which is making waves in the local tech industry due to its programs and activism. One of the programs called CodeGirls (free coding and business skills boot camp for girls/women) has received immense support from both local and international tech sectors in the form of sponsorships, outreach, and work opportunities. She is an ambassador for CryptoChicks, a blockchain and AI-based community initiative with its HQ in Toronto. Faiza is a graduate and post-graduate from NED University and completed a World-Bank-funded program called WomenXPakistan, which equipped her with the knowledge to run and grow her business. She has multiple certifications in Project Management, Product Management, and Software Quality. She enjoys teaching and training and has worked with various local universities as a visiting professor. Her projects portfolio includes programs with USAID, UNEquals, SkillSoft, Thinkful, and Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Along with all of this, Faiza is a top-rated freelancer on Upwork and has been featured in multiple campaigns by upwork. She is a member of the Pakistan Software House Association’s Diversity Committee and has been featured in various publications worldwide. She is a well-known international speaker, loves to read, and enjoys writing about tools and practices. Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/faizayousuf/ Twitter - https://www.linkedin.com/in/faizayousuf/ Blog - https://www.faizayousuf.com/ This video is of one of the Atomic Talks presented at #TestFlix- Global Software #Testing Binge, 2021. TestFlix 2021 had: - 5.2M Social Media Reach - 29k+ Social Media Likes - 32k+ Social Media Mentions - 101 Speakers - 100 Talks - 22 Speaker Countries - 6000+ Registrations - 99+ countries - 2350+ companies - 2271 Attendees - 4000+ Messages shared on Event chat TestFlix 2021 Proud Sponsors: LAMBDATEST - https://www.lambdatest.com/ ACCELQ - https://www.accelq.com/ SAUCE LABS- https://saucelabs.com/ Kobiton - https://kobiton.com/ Testo Meter - https://testometer.co.in/ Stryker - https://www.stryker.com/ Co.meta - https://cometa.rocks/ Qase - https://qase.io/ TestProject - https://testproject.io/ GTEN - https://www.gtentechnologies.com/

Session 10 at eShe's South Asia Union Summit Led by Women looks at why the old ways of education are not enough to equip South Asian youth for a digital future, and what kinds of new approaches are needed in education. PANELISTS: Faiza Yousuf, technologist and founder of WomeninTechPK and CodeGirls (Pakistan) Shahneila Saeed, director, Digital Schoolhouse, Head of Education, Ukie (UK) Monica Malhotra Kandhari, managing director, MBD Group (India) Moderator: Sabin Muzaffar, feminist publisher and editor of Ananke magazine (UAE) More details: https://eshe.in/2021/09/13/south-asia-union-summit-led-by-women/ Powered by WISCOMP

I am obsessed with the idea of personal growth, self-reflection, and self-learning. I constantly read about mindset changes, goal setting, productivity, and improving decision making and this has led me to build a few systems for myself. In this talk, we will be discussing how to set better goals for personal growth, goal-specific decision making, and also forming better habits that support your personal growth journey. It will also include some specific decision-making techniques and patterns, like, Comparison Analysis, Herd Mentality, Sunken Cost, and Action Bias.  More details: https://confengine.com/conferences/agile-india-2021/proposal/15794 Conference Link: https://2021.agileindia.org