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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

Some find the process of creating them “childish” or “a waste of time”. Illustration by Thea Schukken The process of creating a skill matrix and having an open and honest conversation about the skills and what each of the member's needs from others are probably more important than the work agreements that come out of it. R., & Chu, A.

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How I ended up becoming a (Professional) Scrum trainer

Gunther Verheyen

In October 2003 my life of Scrum started, albeit not with Scrum. I had been closely following up on the emergence and growth of Scrum.org as it coincided with a personal process of professional recovery. I experienced it as an expression of “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”. It intrigued me.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Managment Processes. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) , AACE Workshop, Denver, Colorado, April 16, 2011. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline , AACE Workshop , April 16, 2011.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

The mechanical perspective draws attention to the structure and processes of organizations. In the end, the internal logic of the mechanical perspective rests on checklists, managerial plans, rules, processes, and numbers. From the mechanical perspective, change is defined in terms of modifications to structures and processes.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. Aleatory uncertainty is expressed as a process variability. First, let's establish a principle.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. 5, September/October 2011. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 105, 2003. “A Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ? 3, March 2002.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Effective Risk Management 2nd Edition, Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. 5, September/October 2011. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 105, 2003. “A Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999.