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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

Poppendieck was an influence for me, no doubt, and several others in those days. But sure, it was heavily influenced by Mary Poppendieck. Okay, so one thing I wanna just give a nod to, it’s like somebody who’s heavily influenced our thinking on this was David Anderson’s stuff around the pre-Kanban stuff.

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5 Easy Steps to Keep Your Engineers Engaged

Wrike

As an engineer, you’d be lucky to have everything go perfectly: the project’s cool, the stack is relevant, and the tasks are at a sweet spot of competence/difficulty/interesting ratio at the same time. 2020 became the year of the pandemic. It takes an incredible amount of effort, time, and money to hire a new engineer.