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Is Blue-print Thinking Limiting The Potential Of The Agile Community?

Scrum.org

A framework is a blueprint for a process. In these change processes, the focus lies on blueprints, scripts, and recipes, as captured in comprehensive guides with tailored terminology. Words like “implementation” and “rolling out” imply a deeply mechanical process. It's also a bit philosophical and not quite practical.

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Managing Risk from Every Level of Your Organization

LiquidPlanner

All project team members must do everything they can to manage uncertainty within their sphere of influence. 2003, September 25). Macmillan, Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity, Boston MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2009. Hillson, D. Layton, Mark. Accessed 15 May 2022. ³

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Why is Cognitive Diversity important? How to promote it?

Scrum.org

I found that three main factors influence how to make a high-performance team. Group of like-mind can quickly build on their experience and ability in their area of knowledge to solve problems, process their work in groups or individually (as this group will often be roughly equally skilled for a given Specific issue).

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The Definitive Guide to Project Sponsors

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A sponsor who is not implicated in the delivery will find it hard to be motivated by the work and may be unable to take decisions about something that is outside their sphere of influence. Without trust, influence is almost impossible.”. Leaders at all levels will be more inclined to engage in the process if they trust what you doing.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

Recognize how much of your thinking is still subtly influenced by a mechanical perspective in organizations . like network patterning, mood, safety, social contact and social influence?—?than The mechanical perspective draws attention to the structure and processes of organizations. than on individual traits.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

Scrum.org

Attention is the process of selectively concentrating on one aspect while ignoring other aspects. It is a mental process and a limited mental resource (Ashcraft, 2002). Together, these three considerations accommodate a process called self-organization. This will affect all estimates and predictions.

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Do you have a CRACK PO? (and a book review)

Kiron Bondale

In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. The challenge with the PO role is that not only do you need someone who has deep business process knowledge regarding the product they are supporting, but they also need to have well established relationships with key stakeholders who will influence product direction.