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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. In Achieving Quality in Software (pp. Kearney, E.,

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The Origins of Scrum Might Not Be What You Think They Are (Wisdom from Rafael Sabbagh)

Gunther Verheyen

As the earlier excerpt shows, it was this book that introduced the idea of applying the practices described by Takeuchi and Nonaka to software development. The authors explain why the waterfall model doesn’t work for software development, and they offer possible alternatives, among them (what they call) Scrum.

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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). The influence of initial anchoring is less, especially when I take care not to anchor myself again.

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

Herding Cats

This document is all but unknown in the Enterprise IT domain and completely unknown in the agile software development world. This missing document is a root cause of many failures in tradition and agile software development. Davis, RAND National Defense Institute.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

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

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Barry : Failed software development projects. I was responsible for managing software development projects. Developers, because of the growing crunch-culture. I have a pretty diverse background, from scientific training to software development and from running a company to being part of a team.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. 920, November 2004. 3 September 2004, Heiot Watt University, Association of Researchers in Construction Management , Vol. 255, April 2010. Talat Birgonul, and A. 85 1 Feb 2019. “An