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Raising Climate Awareness in Scrum Teams - a Scrum Master’s Journey

Scrum.org

During that session, the team estimated that optimizing our landscape and decommissioning legacy components could reduce our footprint by a significant percentage! The sprint review showed the value they achieved for the planet, reducing an estimated 4 tons of CO2 per year. The path toward sustainable IT is not paved.

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Five reasons why Scrum is not helping in getting twice the work done in half the time

Scrum.org

They got training on Scrum, understood concepts, and formed teams, but struggle to commit. Do you measure estimated time for a task vs. actual time spent? Adopting Extreme Programming Practices, separating release from deployment, and embracing modern software engineering practices will speed up team performance.

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Generative AI and Project Management in 2024: Three Themes to Watch

MPUG

According to International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates , less than 10% of that data is analyzed. At Envorso, we are incubating a software product called Empwr.ai that is designed to transform unstructured data into usable structured data to help teams optimize their operations, information sharing, and communication.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Train the people working on the project about optimism bias and how that bias is exhibited in their behavior as well as their decision making. Start with an awareness that the bias exists.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Train the people working on the project about optimism bias and how that bias is exhibited in their behavior as well as their decision making. Start with an awareness that the bias exists.

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Cone of Uncertainty Bibliography

Herding Cats

This can be the confidence in the estimate for any variable. But is can be ANY variance for the program, including confidence in the estimates of future performance - cost, schedule, or technical performance. This usually results in a project's actual costs far outrunning the optimistic estimates and creating a large overrun.