Take a Smile - Tiempo Development

AUGUST INTERNTAL
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INS IDE THIS ISSUE:
WE DID IT AGAIN!
TEAM, once again this year, we have made it into the top fastest-growing companies. We could it done it without your dedication, support and hard-work.
As you know, Inc. 5000 is a magazine that
ranks the US top fastest-growing companies according to a four year period revenue and once a
year they publish a list of the top 5000 companies in the US.
CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!
Our CEO shares the enthusiasm with us:
“Congratulations team! Fourth year in a row
to make the Inc. 5000 fastest growing private companies list. Not many companies
make it once, let alone four times. Awesome
Accomplishments!”
Take a Smile
How often do you smile a day? Did you know that smiling triggers activity in
your brain? Your face has 44 muscles in it that allow you to make more than
5,000 different types of expressions, many of which are smiles. Your left frontal
cortex is the area of your brain that registers happiness.
Smiling happens without much thought. When you watch
a friend do something silly or embarrassing, you smirk. When a
police officer lets you off without a ticket, you grin. And when you are recognized
for your performance in academics or work, you beam. Smiling is a very natural
response that shares our happiness with others. (Continue in page 7…)
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Birthdays
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New Hires
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Selva Mágica
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Bowling Competition
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Selva Magica
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Taco Friday
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360º Feedback
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RecRoom at GDL
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Tiempo Connect
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Meeting a Tiempo Team
Member
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Welcome New Babies
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Take a smile continue...
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Tiempo Culture
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TQS
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Human Capital Reminder
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Upcoming events in your
city
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Birthday Celebrations
This past month, July 25th, we gather together to celebrate our monthly company
meeting where we give updates, birthdays, and anniversaries. We were connected
through videoconference with all the operation centers.
We hope you had a great time and enjoyed yourselves !
Congratulations to everyone in their special day
AUGUST
Fernando Aguayo
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Victor Valencia
7
David Sepulveda
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Fatima Pacheco
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Emmanuel Ortiz
12
Celeste Santana
13
Oscar Villegas
13
Victor Lopez
15
Crystal Acuña
16
Edson Barojas
21
Jessica Gomez
24
Alejandro Hernandez
27
Carlos Chucuan
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Congratulations to Celeste Santana in
her 5th year Anniversary at Tiempo
Development. Thank you for your
dedication and commitment and for
always having that sense of humor
and positive attitude day by day. Well
done buddy!
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Meet our July New Hires
Marco Esparza
TD Hermosillo
SE III
Hill International
Sergio Peña
TD Monterrey
SEL
FurstPerson
Alberto Chucuan
TD Guadalajara
SE II
Picmonic
Iran Corrales
TD Hermosillo
TE II
TripWire
Liliana Lira
TD Monterrey
Sr. PM
FurstPerson
Sergio Arauz
TD Guadalajara
SEII
Picmonic
Mario Muñoz
TD Monterrey
SE II
Insight
Israel Calderon
TD Monterrey
SEL
FurstPerson
Pablo Carranza
TD Hermosillo
TE II
DocSolid
Violetta Rios
TD Monterrey
TM/Training Coord.
Talent Management
Katia Perez
TD Guadalajara
Mkt Sr. Coordinator
Marketing
Romy Bustamante
TD USA
Marketing Specialist
Marketing
Clarrisa Contreras
TD Guadalajara
Intern
Marketing
Efren Carbajal
TD Monterrey
SEIII
SnapFlow
Jose Vazquez
TD Hermosillo
Intern
Process & QA
Gerardo Cruz
TD Hermosillo
Intern
Process & QA
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On July 10th Tiempo Development HMO had
our first bowling tournament, where 27 players, on 9 teams enjoyed
moments of fun and competition with family and friends.
The event was held at Bol Satelite and was organized by Tiempo HMO
Sports Committee. Thanks to all the participants on this event and congratulations to
our winners, the Pin Pals (Alma Chavez, Martin Estrada, Ernesto Ibarra).
Stay tuned for more sports events coming soon ...
Tiempo Guadalajara had a day out
together to a theme park called “Selva Magica.” We had
a great time together getting on the rides and watching some performances.
Kudos for the social committee for
this great idea
and for keep creating activities to
help us bond with
each other.
Tiempo Monterrey gathered together again for Taco Friday for
breakfast. We had a time to bond together while eating delicious taco with hot sauce. ¡A comer se ha dicho!
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Feedback
is an essential component of effective
change and, therefore, improvement. And we all have the goal to
improve things.
Within the workplace, there is always change. Paradoxically,
change is perhaps the one constant. Feedback – seeking it, giving
it and receiving it – is one of the most effective tools we have for
harnessing and promoting change, so that it is to our benefit.
Feedback helps us understand things like:
 What we can change to get better results
 The rate of progress towards a goal
 What needs to happen to improve relationships
 Whether something is worth doing
 How well we are doing
This September we will be performing a 360-degree feedback . . . Stay tuned for more information.
On August 6th, our coworkers were surprised by the opening of our new Rec Room
in Guadalajara. Cliff, our CEO, was happy to share this accomplishment for everybody.
Let’s start playing and enjoy this relaxing space as part of our work
environment!
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Tiempo
This time we have the opportunity to talk to one of our employees and get to know a little bit
about her: Mauricel Diaz
Origins
She was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco and has lived there since
she was a baby. She’s the middle of three daughters. There is
her little sister of 9 years old and
her older sister who loves
adopting dogs homes for them.
Team member
cruiter at Tiempo Guadalajara.
She says that she likes the people at Tiempo and enjoys the
work environment. She shares
with us that she has learned a lot
about the Mexican market, candidates and our competencies.
Joining Tiempo
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As her personal goal she will like to
be a great mom and wife.
As a professional she will
like continue growing in the company and exceed every expectations.
Hobbies
What Mauricel loves to do is to
hangout with her family and take
her daughter to the playground
at the park and take her dog out
to take a walk. She also likes to
Mauricel is married and cook and bake desserts.
has a 2 year
She also likes having social
old daughter
time with her friends in a local
and soon she
café, bar or dining out. She likes
will be welgoing out to the movies with her
coming a new
husband or eating out together.
member into
She likes watching most movies–
the Diaz’ FamHer beautiful daughter anything but scary.
ily.
Riding a bike and swimming
are
also things that she
Mauricel studied a Bachelor Degree in psychology at Uni- love to do. In addition,
versidad de Guadalajara (UDG). Mauricel likes to take some time
She is interesting in learning to read, although she hasn’t read
about and understanding peo- that much lately. She likes readple’s behavior. If she had not ing anything is narrative or psystudied psychology she would chology related. Her last book
that she read was “Triángulos
have gone into medicine.
Relacionales”.
She worked in HP for 5 ½
years as a recruiter and then at
Teletech as recruiter’s assistant
for 6 months and after that she
joined Tiempo.
Mau, joined Tiempo in November of last year, as a Senior Re-
Future Plans
Mauricel with her husband
Her dogs
Think Fast
1.Which is your favorite movie
character? Bourne from the Supremacy
2. What’s your favorite music? Alternative
3. Do you have any nicknames?
Mau
4.What’s your favorite food? Spaghetti
5.What is your favorite color?
Green
6. Are you superstitious? No
7. Tacos or salad? Salad
8. Hamburgers or Roast beef?
Hamburgers
9. Pepsi or Cola? None
10. Beer or wine? Beer
11. Shy or extroverted? Shy
12.Summer or winter? Winter
13. What is the first thing you think
when you wake up? IT’S LATE!!
We are happy to congratulate Jose Maria Ibarra, who just became a father
for a second time, to a lovely girl, named Samantha. Congratulations to
the proud new parents. May these tiny feet will tiptoe with love into your
hearts and stay there forever.
José Ma. Ibarra’s
baby girl: Samantha
Birthdate: Aug 5
Weight: 2.100 kg
Measure: 44 cm
TAKE A SMILE...
As you know, your behavior around others is effected by your environment, whether it is positive or negative. If
you're around people with a positive attitude and sense of humor, unconsciously you'll start having positive
thoughts and behaviors. On the other hand, if you're in a negative environment, your mind will
take all of that and you'll start behaving just like the people around you. Take a smile and take
what you need were the themes of the activities for our core value of Delighting the Customer.
The purpose of these activities were to spread smiles and a positive environment. Also, a list of
psychological needs were posted so you can take “What You Need” in order to continue with
your daily activities. You could choose from inspiration, friendship, patience, understanding,
etc., anything that motivates you to help build a positive environment that will spread to others. Not everything in life is material or money. Sometimes we just need a little bit of understanding or inspiration in order to keep our feet on the ground and keep working to achieve
our goals.
This next month we will be having our first Tiempo Culture
Week!
We will be participating in activities to reinforce our company
values and have fun while doing
it!
Get ready to learn, share, and
give the best. And there’s no better way to end the week with a
picnic on Saturday.
YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS IT!
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TQS Artifacts– Definitions
Done
The Scrum Guide™ describes the Definition of Done (DoD) as a tool for bringing transparency to the
work a Scrum Team is performing. It is related more to the quality of a product, rather than its functionality.
As Scrum Teams work together using the Scrum framework to develop a product, it is important for stakeholders and Scrum Teams to understand when a product Increment can be called
"Done." This means that before a piece of functionality is in a potentially releasable state, it must adhere to a common understanding of completion by those working on the Increment. Having a clear
Definition of Done helps Scrum Teams work together more collaboratively, increases transparency,
and ultimately results in the development of consistently higher quality software.
The DoD is usually a clear and concise list of requirements that a software Increment must
adhere to for the team to call it complete. Until this list is satisfied, a product Increment is not done.
During the Sprint Planning meeting, the Scrum Team develops or reconfirms its DoD, which enables
the Development Team to know how much work to select for a given Sprint. Further, a common DoD
helps to:

Baseline progress on work items
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Enable transparency within the Scrum Team
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Expose work items that need attention

Determine when an Increment is ready for release
The Definition of Done is not changed during a Sprint, but should change periodically between Sprints to reflect improvements the Development Team has made in its processes and capabilities to deliver software.
Reference
"Definition of Done." Scrum.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 July 2014.
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Date: August 15
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Blake Shelton
Date: August 30,
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Hermosillo
Monterrey
Alejandro Filio
Date: August 22
Place: Esta Cabral
Time: 9pm
Disney on Ice
Date: August 13-17
Place: Arena Monterrey
Time: 4pm
Rhapsody of Fire
Date: August 24
Place: Centro de espectaulos Modelo Cd.
Obregon
Time: 7pm
Bruno Mars
Date: September 5
Place: Arena Monterrey
Time: 9pm
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Date: August 24
Place: Teatro Diana
Time: 9pm
5k Run Corre y Frena
la esclerosis multiple
Date: August 30
Place: Pistones Centro
Time: 8pm
La Familia de Diez
Date: August 30
Place: Teatro Diana
Time: 7pm and 9:30pm
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