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

Scrum.org

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

Having no other plans for that time being, I could completely focus on my work as curator: contacting people, collecting ideas for essays, reviewing potential essays, suggesting potential edits, ordering and categorizing them, reviewing the manuscript and the cover. 20, 2004: pp. 20, 2004: pp. 1986, [link]. (2)

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What is Taylorism, and why Waterfall is just the tip of the iceberg!

Scrum.org

Reviewer(s): Russell Miller PST. The modern school system was developed during the industrial revolution to train factory workers. The result is that many people have been trained from an early age to be factory workers. And so we created departments so we could centralise training and knowledge on a single topic.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. 61, September 2004.

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Managing Virtual Teams Successfully

The IIL Blog

To this end, expenditures that are reviewed to ensure that a team will function optimally might include factors such as: Web-based platforms for collaboration, i.e., WebEx or GoToMeeting. Resources: Number of participants, software, and systems required, facilities, etc. Webcam equipment for real-time video conversation.

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

Scrum.org

Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Why our brain is not built for software engineering. So, answering your mail and writing some code at the same time is going to decrease productiveness. Most of us find it very hard to concentrate on the train-of-thought necessary for continuous thought.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.