article thumbnail

In-Depth: The Science On Sustainable Pace, Stress, And Motivation

Scrum.org

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? What is a sustainable pace? The notion of “sustainable pace” is closely tied to Extreme Programming practices. But that recommendation was updated to “sustainable pace” by Ron Jeffries later. Pace should be sustainable over a long time. .

article thumbnail

Sustain Your PMO: Nine Easy Lessons

The Lazy Project Manager

It addition it is noted in the PM-Partners: PMO Trends 2012 report: When a PMO is expected to work across the organisation at all levels, oversee significant investments and facilitate senior decisions – it is surprising that a high number of organisations either put the wrong person in the job or don’t support them when they are in place.

PMO 170
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

Scrum.org

From 2005 (first beta) until 2012 they worked, successfully delivering a new version every 2 years. Even before 2012 Leadership, and engineers, had noticed that things were getting bogged down. Ignoring technical debt can severely undermine the effectiveness and sustainability of your software products. Reach out now for a ?

article thumbnail

Lack of Education is a Root Cause of Poor Agile Performance

Scrum.org

The first paper was a 2012 study on the tensions with remote (off-shoring) teams (Ramesh et al Ambidexterity in Agile Development ISR2012). Change needs to be systemic to be sustainable. The lecture triggered many thoughts about the relevance of teaching Agile/Scrum. Take a look at the following model.

article thumbnail

Top 10 Books on Change Management (2020 edition)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Leading Change (2012) is a comprehensive guide to his 8-step process for managing change. The topics covered include sustaining change, change readiness, and there’s a section specifically on change in a project management setting. See this list (and some extras) on Amazon. Leading Change by John P. Professor John P.

article thumbnail

Top 10 Books on Change Management (2023 edition)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Leading Change (2012) is a comprehensive guide to his 8-step process for managing change. The topics covered include sustaining change, change readiness, and there’s a section specifically on change in a project management setting. Was I inspired to put the ideas into practice? Leading Change by John P. Professor John P.

article thumbnail

How I ended up becoming a (Professional) Scrum trainer

Gunther Verheyen

Although it is not something I had planned for, it looks like in 2011-2012 I ended up being in the eye of the Scrum storm that was sweeping the Netherlands. In March 2012, Ken and I agreed on initiating and driving forward the first edition of a new event, which we called Scrum Day Europe. It wasn’t too sustainable (I guess).

SCRUM 103