Larimar Consulting

Meeting and workshop facilitators can often find themselves caught in the middle of several strong personalities trying to get their point across or convince others of their opinion.  When tempers flare the meeting might descend into a bastion of name calling, cursing, bruised egos and the potential for long term damage to personal and professional [...]

In many Agile projects requirements are not typically written in the form of a formal requirements document.  Instead, a collection of concise but effective means of describing what must be built called user stories are often used.  User stories describe the behaviour, performance, or interface of a system from a customer’s perspective.  A typical user [...]

Sometimes you get in meetings where there a lot of diverse opinions present and a specific option must be decided upon.  If you’re not facilitating the meeting, you can easily (and justifiably) be focusing on the comments and dialogue that only align with your thoughts on the given subject.  You may find yourself wavering in [...]

I am in charge of a relatively big training effort for a project (approximately 45 live training sessions in 10 weeks, as well as online training opportunities) to assist with the deployment of a new piece of software.  The live training alone will involve over 450 people and will be quite in depth and hands [...]

Welcome!  My name is Jarett Hailes, a business and technology consultant based in Edmonton, Canada.  I began my career in the technology field just over 10 years ago.  While I started in technology, I have worked in a variety of technical and business roles with organizations ranging from small start-up companies to large enterprises and [...]