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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

This is the ability of team members to act in concert without explicit coordination (MacMillan, Entin & Serfaty, 2004). This effect has been observed with flight crews (Orasuna, 1990), nuclear plant control crews (Waller, Gupta & Giambatista, 2004), and work teams (Urban et. In Achieving Quality in Software (pp. Kearney, E.,

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Agile Movers & Shakers (6): The Liberators Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem

Scrum.org

“ Christiaan : A friend of mine started a software company. It resonated strongly with my beliefs about personal autonomy and all my prior training as a psychologist.”. Barry : Failed software development projects. It resonated strongly with my beliefs about personal autonomy and all my prior training as a psychologist.”.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. An Introduction to IMP/IMS , 17 Oct 2004. Capabilities Based Planning.

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The Origins of Scrum Might Not Be What You Think They Are (Wisdom from Rafael Sabbagh)

Gunther Verheyen

As the earlier excerpt shows, it was this book that introduced the idea of applying the practices described by Takeuchi and Nonaka to software development. The authors explain why the waterfall model doesn’t work for software development, and they offer possible alternatives, among them (what they call) Scrum. 20, 2004: pp.

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How to Create a Project Team Culture with Colin Ellis

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the things I noticed probably post 2004, when we all went a bit method crazy, was that it’s a bit of a dying art, this creating teams thing. For the last three years I was working in New Zealand, I worked as a contractor, and I had way more influence as a contractor than I ever did as a permanent employee.

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

Scrum.org

Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Why our brain is not built for software engineering. Most of us find it very hard to concentrate on the train-of-thought necessary for continuous thought. Nevertheless, the motto of software development is often ‘first solve the problem, then write the code’.

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How to Create a Project Team Culture with Colin Ellis

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the things I noticed probably post 2004, when we all went a bit method crazy, was that it’s a bit of a dying art, this creating teams thing. For the last three years I was working in New Zealand, I worked as a contractor, and I had way more influence as a contractor than I ever did as a permanent employee.