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

Scrum.org

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. What is a sustainable pace? We certainly have.

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10 Top Process Improvement Tools You Need to Create a More Sustainable Business

nTask

A study by BCG/MIT finds that 90% of executives deem sustainability to be important, yet only 60% of companies incorporate sustainability as part of their business strategy, and even less (25%) integrate sustainability into the core of their business model. Implement effective process improvement techniques for sustainability.

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

In many large organizations, Scrum teams fall into the ‘feature factory’ trap, focusing more on churning out features than creating real value. It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation.

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No Sprint Goal, No Cohesion, No Collaboration?

Scrum.org

What if the Scrum team is always only working on a random assortment of work items that seem to be the most pressing at the moment of the Sprint Planning? Join me and delve into the importance of the Sprint Goal for meaningful work as a Scrum team in less than two minutes. ???? This may be an edge case.

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Risk-aware Product Development (a.k.a. Scrum)

Scrum.org

Over the years I've heard my share of these kinds of statements from various levels of executives: "When my guys run a product development release I really want to know what I will get at the end so I can make business plans accordingly". "In Types of Uncertainty in Product Development. Let's make it clear up front.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2020

ProjectManager.com

It’s not a bad practice, but why save it for once a year? It also focuses on the technical project management environment, life cycles in a technical environment and IT exercises to better lead projects. A software development conference with workshops on the theme of Our Digital Tomorrow. GOTO Chicago. May 3-6, Anaheim, CA.

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Building an Effective Agile Transformation Consultant Team

Leading Agile

In a recent blog post, we discussed the various types of Agile Transformation Coaches needed to run a sustainable Transformation. Rather, it takes a team of consultants performing their duties at multiple levels of the organization. Rather, it takes a team of consultants performing their duties at multiple levels of the organization.