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

Scrum.org

In the following century, it would give rise to modern-day practices like lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Gantt-charts. Grawitch, Munz & Kramer (2003) demonstrated experimentally that groups with positive moods tend to generate more original ideas than groups in a negative mood (12% of the variance was explained by mood alone).

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

It’s not just your on the cover of a magazine and super healthy fitness model on day one, right? And they’re like, the product person is like, we need to be doing Lean Startup. And I’m like, you are going to screw those people if you force them to do lean startup stuff. So, (unintelligible) a pretty smart guy.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Estimating Models of Program Management,” Keith Womer and Jeff Camm, Final Technical Reports, N00014-00-1-0280, University of Mississippi, 2003. October 1, 2003. “A 1, January 2003, pp. “Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc. Control Variates for Stochastic Network Simulation,” T. Avaramidlis and J.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Story Point Estimating,” Richard Carlson, ALEA, Agile and Lean Associates, 2013. Improving Subjective Estimations Using Paired Comparisons,” Eduardo Miranda, IEEE Software Magazine, Vol. IT Project Estimation: A Practical Guide to Costing Software , Paul Coombs, Cambridge University Press, 2003. Martin 5 October 2003, [link].