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On Technical Debt And Code Smells: Surprising insights from scientific studies

Scrum.org

So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”. This post is ideal for developers with some experience, and for people who support developers in the development of their technical skills.

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Brief comparison between MSP 5th edition and MSP 2011 edition

Henny Portman

Organization MSP 5 th edition MSP 2011 edition Sponsoring group Sponsoring group Programme board Programme board Programme office Programme office Senior responsible owner (SRO) Senior responsible owner (SRO) Programme Manager Programme Manager Business Change Manager (BCM) Business Change Manager (BCM). Two themes are more or less new.

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Overview of my year 2020 book reviews

Henny Portman

2020 was again an extremely fruitful book review year. I wrote around 50 book reviews including 16 corresponding quick reference cards and several personal insights, and views on specific topics in the field of project, program and portfolio management. My own books, whitepapers and articles. Project/programme management. Management.

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Test First approach sounds simply enough, right?

Scrum.org

This can be the first confusion in its understanding and actual meaning today, for either technical or non-technical folk. Then we have all these practices you hear about residing under this Test First banner - TDD, BDD, and ATDD. Test Driven Development (TDD). But let us leave that for another day. Add a test.

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SAFe Simply Explained (Part 1): Core Competencies and Principles

Inloox

Large corporations in particular, which are in urgent need of more agility due to entrenched structures, usually have the hardest time implementing an agile transformation. Team and technical agility: Agile teams are the cornerstone of business agility. But it’s not that easy. How do you build the framework for holistic agility?

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The unbreakable bond: How outstanding service = brand loyalty

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Offer the human touch for exceptional service beyond automation As technology advances, there is a greater emphasis on automation and AI-powered solutions. Provide scripts and training, but empower team members to do what’s right – even if that means going off piste. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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Benefits of Scaled Agile Framework ( SAFe®) – Agilemania

Agilemania

The year was 2011 and there was a pressing need for a scaling framework that could help large organizations design efficient systems to build enterprise level products/solutions to cater to customer’s rapidly changing needs. In the Scaled Agile Framework, every team member works diligently.