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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower - Project Management

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. The PMs are seeing late deliveries and bugs that suggest the devs just aren’t capable enough. This can be true even if those failures had nothing to do with the current team.

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Development Team Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Development Team in Scrum. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

Planio

According to the Project Management Institute’s Pulse of the Profession survey , 81% of top-performing companies prioritize the development of technical project management skills. Next, ask your team questions. If you can’t walk the walk with your development team, they’re going to reject your suggestions.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

The original post, while likely well meaning, coming from direct experience, focuses on ME the developer. And like many posts and tweets about estimating, it's made from this point of view, not the business point view, not from the point of view of those paying the developer. This Value is developed during the Product Planning session.

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Interview Coding Challenges: A Way to Hire Developers Who Know their Code

Teamweek

Interview coding challenges are critical when hiring new software developers. Finding the right developer can be a difficult process. What are Interview Coding Challenges for Developers? These are technical quiz-type tests that require the developer to pick the correct answer out of several possible answers.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. What does the team care about?

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

This is simply good process development and management. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. We assess physical percent complete at close business every single day, with the update of the TO DO field in Rally at the Task level.