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

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This is the ability of team members to act in concert without explicit coordination (MacMillan, Entin & Serfaty, 2004). This effect has been observed with flight crews (Orasuna, 1990), nuclear plant control crews (Waller, Gupta & Giambatista, 2004), and work teams (Urban et. 2004).

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Get Motivated: 10 Motivational Speeches That Will Change Your Life

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What’s amazing about people is, despite the external forces at play on our constitution, we can always be influenced by attitude. Barack Obama, DNC Speech, 2004. Before Barack Obama became the first African-American President of the United States, when he was little known outside the grassroots activist community in Chicago, he was given a national platform as the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in 2004.

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Test First approach sounds simply enough, right?

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This influence on software design and architecture became so important, beside the other positive effects, that Beck found it worthwhile to rename it from Test-First Programming to Test-Driven Development. est 2004). Behaviour-Driven Development (est 2004).

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

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Air Force CONOPS & Capabilities Based Planning, Lt Col Nathan Titus, Resource Analyses Directorate, Air Force Studies and Analyses Agency, 19 March 2004. The Influence of the Concept of Capability-based Management on the Development of the Systems Engineering Discipline Elena Irina Neaga, Michael Henshaw and Yi Yue, 7 th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research 2009 (CSER 2009).

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

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It happens, for example, when we don’t trust a certain person or group of people, and then only see behavior that fits with our belief (or even interpret it as such) without considering observations where they don’t (Oswald & Grosjean, 2004). 2004), “Confirmation Bias” , in Pohl, Rüdiger F. (ed.),

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How to Create a Project Team Culture with Colin Ellis

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the things I noticed probably post 2004, when we all went a bit method crazy, was that it’s a bit of a dying art, this creating teams thing. I recently did a Live Q&A with Colin Ellis in my Facebook group. Are you a member yet?

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

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According to Wikipedia, feedback control is: Feedback is a process in which information about the past or the present influences the same phenomenon in the present or future. 2004) _How can we think the complex?Retrieved Want to listen instead of read?

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Risk Management Resources

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2, 2004. 920, November 2004. 3 September 2004, Heiot Watt University, Association of Researchers in Construction Management , Vol. An Approach to Technology Risk Management,” Ricardo Valerdi and Ron Kohl, Engineering Systems Division Symposium , 2004. 920, 2004. Tim Lister, Boston SPIN, January 20, 2004. Oberkampf, SAND2004-3072, Sandia National Laboratory, October 2004. Helm, (2004). Kahneman, MIT Press, 2004.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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2, 2004. 920, November 2004. 3 September 2004, Heiot Watt University, Association of Researchers in Construction Management , Vol. An Approach to Technology Risk Management,” Ricardo Valerdi and Ron Kohl, Engineering Systems Division Symposium , 2004. 920, 2004. Tim Lister, Boston SPIN, January 20, 2004. Oberkampf, SAND2004-3072, Sandia National Laboratory, October 2004. Helm, (2004). Kahneman, MIT Press, 2004.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The Influence of Selection Bias on Effort Overruns in Software Development Projects,” Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory & Institute of Informatics , University of Oslo. Group Processes in Software Effort Estimation,” Kjetil Moløkken-østvold and Magne Jørgensen, Empirical Software Engineering, 9, 315–334, 2004. 449-462, July 2004. 12, December 2004. Could Social Factors Influence the Effort Software Estimation?”

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Software Estimating Resources

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61, September 2004. Software Development Projects in Government Performance, Practices and Predictions,” International Software Benching Marking Standards Group, January 2004. “A Effort Estimation in Incremental Software Development,” Oddur Benediktsson and Darren Dalcher Software Forensics Centre, Middlesex University, IEE Proceedings – Software, 2004. Dasari, IFPUG 2004 Annual Conference, 23 September 2004. “On 60, 2004.

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Agile Movers & Shakers (6): The Liberators Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem

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During Christmas of 2004! Instead of implicitly rehashing someone else’s idea – which is impossible to some extent — I like not being too influenced. TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem. Today we welcome Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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An Introduction to IMP/IMS , 17 Oct 2004. Influences on IT Strategy: How IT Strategy Impacts the Development of Systems Based on COTS Products. Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

What was that, probably 2004, or ’05 or something in that kind of range, I think? Poppendieck was an influence for me, no doubt, and several others in those days. But sure, it was heavily influenced by Mary Poppendieck. Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go!

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How to Create a Project Team Culture with Colin Ellis

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the things I noticed probably post 2004, when we all went a bit method crazy, was that it’s a bit of a dying art, this creating teams thing. For the last three years I was working in New Zealand, I worked as a contractor, and I had way more influence as a contractor than I ever did as a permanent employee. This article, How to Create a Project Team Culture with Colin Ellis , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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The programmatic risks are within the control or influence of the Program Management or Program Executive Office, through managerial actions applied to the work activities contained in the Integrated Master Schedule. risks that originate outside the program office or are not within the control or influence of the Program Manager or Program Executive Office.

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Webinar Recap: Project Managers are Change Managers

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He joined Edwards in 2004 as a project coordinator and scheduler and provided project planning and scheduling support to a variety of commercial and federal government clients.

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The Relationship Between Stress, Nutrition, and Emotional Well-Being - Sheryl Puterman

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My family and I are survivors of the 2004 Asian tsunami. So basically with Mind Body nutrition, it's the psycho physiology of how our thoughts our feelings, our beliefs, stress, relaxation, pleasure awareness, and and, of course, so much more directly influenced the way we metabolize a meal. It also directly influences the way we calorie burn. To get to the web page of the radio show, click here. To download the mp3 file, click here.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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An Introduction to IMP/IMS , in 2003, the Federal Government revised its acquisition policies with a procurement strategy focused on process improvement and acquisition reform implemented by Performance Based Management, 17 Oct 2004. Influences on IT Strategy: How IT Strategy Impacts the Development of Systems Based on COTS Products , Strategy is creating fit among a company’s activities.

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