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How to do Rolling Wave Planning

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time. As the team undergoes the work, the project manager can constantly review the schedule and add more detail to the next waves as this is known. Then review the next wave.

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

Scrum.org

Clinical burnout is a very severe condition that can put people out of work for the rest of their lives and is often indistinguishable from clinical depression (Bianchi, Schonfeld & Laurent, 2015). For example, I (Christiaan) love the thrill of solving a hard coding problem. Burnout–depression overlap: A review. References.

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Introduction to Jira

MPUG

By 2015, Atlassian went public. Today, in 2023, Jira stands as arguably the most preferred project management software globally. Deciphering Agile Project Management Agile is an iterative approach, particularly effective for software development projects.

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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

Digite

This is the original book where David Anderson first laid down the definition of and guidance to the Kanban Method for software and knowledge work. This is the original book where David Anderson first laid down the definition of and guidance to the Kanban Method for software and knowledge work. By David J Anderson. By Mike Burrows.

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Don’t over-process your project management communications!

Kiron Bondale

I wrote an article in October 2015 describing how the eight forms of waste (a foundational lean tool) can affect project teams. An example of this might be a software developer who continues to refine the design or code for a module even when it successfully passes usability, functional and performance tests.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

So we went to Google Scholar and searched for review articles. 2010) reviewed 28 scientific studies that investigated how Scrum is associated with overall business outcomes. A strength of such a review is that it allows for the identification of patterns across many studies. Journal of systems and software , 81 (6), 961–971.

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Agile Unplugged EP04 | Mike Cottmeyer and Matt Van Vleet

Leading Agile

And in that we grew the company where originally, we did a mixture, as you know, between transformation and building custom software solutions. Over time, we grew to focus more, mainly on customer soft, custom software solutions, and eventually Accenture purchased us. – Interesting. – So it’s interesting.