IDENTIFICATION OF RIGHT LEADERSHIP STYLE FOR AGILE TEAMS

The purpose of this research is to identify trends within leadership techniques applied in agile projects that lead to project success. Certain motivation and productivity drivers need to be defined in order to understand how to evaluate key project success metrics. My research approach involved reviewing papers that studied theoretical leadership frameworks in decision-making, motivation and information sharing. The methodology applied includes creating a mock project scenario, in which two leadership styles (authoritarian vs. servant) will be tested to understand the relationship between leadership, project performance and team morale. The project will have two team leaders applying the leadership style among 4-5 members respectively. It was important to understand what were the popular notions of “effective leadership,” and how that applies to agile project settings. The results highlighted the need to be adaptive and agile leaders, by responding to different project situations, encouraging creativity and incorporating feedback from different stakeholders. Encouraging collaboration within teams through open communication channels and creating a culture of decentralization, diversity and independence is also crucial. Team and personal leadership values were shown to be inter-connected. This allowed building trust and empowering the team to create innovative solutions, and the servant model of leadership offers a good set of leadership values. As a conclusion, it is important throughout projects to align leadership goals with the project goals of scope, time and cost. Future research needs to be executed for projects across industries, especially for firms transitioning from a traditional waterfall methodology towards adopting agile/scrum processes

On the mackerel fishery of the Mandapam area

Mackerel supports a minor fishery in the Mandapam area, especially along the Gulf of Mannar coast. The landings are, of course, small and cannot be compared with those on the West Coast. According to Krishnamurthi (1957), the total mackerel catch in Rameswaram Island in 1952-53 and 1953-54 amounted only to about 9-3 tons. He also found that among the important fishes there, mackerel occupied the 15th and 11th ranks respectively with regard to its contribution to tota catch and the monetary yield. However, the catch and financial returns are certainly much better on the mainland. Mackerel are rarely landed on the Palk Bay side where the general fishing season extends from April to October. However, in October 1956, unusually large catches were recorded on this coast also. During April-September there is little fishing activity on the Gulf of Mannar side. Fishing operations here extend from October-March and it is during this period that mackerel appear in the nearshore waters in sufficiently large numbers as to constitute an important fishery. This account deals with the observations conducted on the fishery from 1952-57 with special reference to catch-per-unit of effort, size composition and maturity

Criteria for fishery regulation

Fishery regulation is as complicated as life itself being concerned with the ordering of the lives of aquatic an imals useful to man. It is not entirely a modern activity but had been in vogue even in ancient times. in enlightened countries like India. Only intuition and common sense were the guiding factors then and regulation was often intended mainly to protect the spawners

On the oil sardine fishery of the Calicut area during the years 1955-56 to 1958-59

There were record catches of the oil sardine {Sardinella longiceps Val.) on the West Coast during the year 1957-58; the 1955-56 season had been poor while in 1956-57 the landings were moderate. The total landings in India from October 1957 to September 1958 amounted to about 238,631 metric tons {vide Quarterly Reports of the C.M.F.R. Institute), which represented the highest reported yield after the 1933-34 season. During 1957-58 was also witnessed an extension of the area of commercial abundance of the fish inasmuch as very good catches were reported even from centres outside the normal sardine zone. The 1958-59 season was however not as successful, and in Calicut was productive, but short. This paper deals with the fishery of the 1955-56 to 1958-59 seasons in the Calicut area, with special reference to catch, effort, surface salinity and temperature of sea-water and size- and age-composition of the landings

The accumulated stock

The concept of accumulated stock explains the fall and subsequent stabilisation , at a lower level, of the catch in an expanding fishery. When demand for a particular fish increases, the trade concentrates the effort on it.

Length-weight relationship in Sardinella albella (Val.) and Sardinella gibbosa (Bleek.)

The length-weight relationships in S. albella and S. gibbosa were estimated. In 5'. albella, the regression coefficients of the 20-39 mm group, the larger indeterminates of the 40-95 mm group and the sexes were found to be significantly different from one another and from 3. In S.gibboia, the regression coefficients of the 20-39 mm group and the larger fish (indeterminates of the 40-95 mm group and the sexes) were significantly different from one another and from 3. In both species, the regression coefficients of the fishes of the 20-39 mm group were significantly higher than those of the fishes of the larger size-groups

Variations in the Fat Content of the Muscles of the Ribbon Fish, Trichiurus haumela (Forskal)

Both the immature and maturing Trichiurus exhibit periodic variations in muscle fat value. These are partly detennined by changes in the quality and quantity of food consumed. Within certain limits, fat value increases with length. Changes in size-composition have some influence on the monthly fat values of the immature stock, but have no significant effect on those of the maturing group

On the South Kanara coastal fishery for mackerel, Rastrelliger canagurta (Cuvier) together with notes on the biology of the fish

North of Mangalore, the South Kanara fishery for the Indian mackerel, Rastrelliger canagurta (Cuvier), is confined mostly to coastal waters, the gear used is the Rampant net, a large shore-seine which exploits only a narrow belt of the sea \-\\ miles from shore [see Pradhan (1956) for description and figure of the net]. The use of other gear for mackerel during the season has traditionally been under a social ban in many of the fishing villages; but even in other places, where the ban does not exist, no serious attempts are made to extend the area of operations. Nevertheless, the output at these centres of coastal fishing forms a major contribution to the total mackerel catch in India. As in other sections of the coast, the best catches are obtained during the October- December period, though the sea&on, as a rule, begins in October and lasts until March or April. During other months, small quantities of mackerel are caught in gill-nets (Pattavala) and small shore-seines (Kairampanis); the gill-net boats venture to a distance of about 6 miles off"shore, while ' Kairampanis' are operated within a zone of only about half a mile from the shore. Panikkar (1949, 1952) has summed up the present state of our knowledge regarding the life-history and movements of mackerel, and has further indicated the lines of investigation that have to be undertaken for a fuller understanding of the fluctuations in catches. Recently Pradhan (1956) has published the results of his study of the mackerel fishery of Karwar. This paper deals with the coastal fishery of the region between Baikampady and Tarapathy in the South Kanara District, with special reference to that of Malpe, one of most important mackerel centres on the West Coast