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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

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Edmondson (2012) argues that dynamic teaming is important to share and encourage learning. This is also what inspired Edmondson (2012) in her academic work on “teaming”. Even a single change in team membership can disrupt that process, and consequently, make it harder for teams to become high-performing sooner.

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

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Initially coined by cognitive psychologist Lee Ross (1977), it happens when people underestimate the influence of the situation on the behavior of others while overestimating the influence of their personal traits and beliefs (Berry, 2015). But the fact that some candidates “survived” the process isn’t enough to conclude that it works.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. This uncertainty is modeled as a stochastic process of an inherently random physical model. Now To Risk Management.

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T-shirt sizing in Agile and Waterfall Projects

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Let us now check the world of T-shirt sizing - one of the project management tools that promises to streamline your planning process and transform it into an engaging, team-building exercise. As part of the development process, refining the backlog and assigning sizes to the tasks and features promotes efficiency in team decision-making.

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

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Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. 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.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Managment Processes. Software for Your Mind: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Creating and Maintaining a Shared Vision. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. The Future of Systems-and Software Development.