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Making Things Happen [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Normally I take lots of notes when I’m reading books for review. I’m seeing this more and more in project management books (I like to think I started a trend !) There is a logical flow to the book. Virtual teams are very much the norm now. It’s all brilliant. and it works very well. Section Two looks at skills.

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Software Developers Don’t Need Permission or Forgiveness

Leading Agile

This one is for software developers. ” In particular, I’m thinking about the notion of keeping the software design clean at all times. ” The term “technical debt” isn’t just an excuse to type code as fast as possible and ignore design. .” Don’t Ask for Permission.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. The bad news, it’s hard to master. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile.

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6 Steps for a Solid Code Review Process

Wrike

Imagine you’re writing a book and you’ve just finished your first draft. This draft represents the code that’s just been written. Your code is like your story. syntax in code and grammar in writing), and ultimately achieve its purpose (e.g., The code review process is like the editing phase in writing a book.

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What makes a good manager? 9 essential qualities and skills

Planio

Despite a busy workload and multiple responsibilities, the best managers find a way to blend their hard and soft skills to deliver on their goals while providing support, direction, and guidance to their team. Get to know your team's strengths and weaknesses 2. Make time to support team members and give feedback 5.

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Scrum’s Nature: It Is a Tool; It Is Not About Love or Hate

Scrum.org

Regularly, we find articles from developers detailing why ‘Agile’ in general and Scrum’s nature, in particular, deserve our collective disdain. These rigid methodologies inevitably turn developers into mindless cogs in a corporate machinery—churning out more and more code—while ignoring the true potential of these knowledge workers.

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Creating the Conditions for High-Performance Development Teams

Leading Agile

Solid technical practices and your full-stack developer’s software craftsmanship are also limited by the conditions inside your organization. And so what we were talking about was the idea, on theme for the last couple of these recordings of, what are the necessary preconditions to be able to do software craftsmanship well?