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The Effective and Innovative Virtual Team Leader

International Institute for Learning

Through June 30, 2020, we are offering free registration to our on-demand course on Virtual Agile Teams (regularly $850 USD). In 2006 he received the prestigious Person of the Year Award from PMI for his contributions to the practice of project management. Learn more and register here >> About the Author.

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., Journal of Product Innovation Management. 2014), and Jugdev et al., There are more options available for correcting project work-related issues. May2014, Vol.

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In-Depth: How Coherence And Cohesion Are Critical To Scrum

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. The social nature of agile teams. In Agile 2007 (AGILE 2007) (pp.

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Route to Enterprise Scale Agility

Digite

Competitiveness in the age of digital disruption requires businesses to achieve agility at scale – not in select projects and portfolios alone, but across functions, across the business. The approaches to achieving enterprise-wide agility are keenly debated. The method wars. So what works best?

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

Scrum.org

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint—just to name a few.

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How to Measure Success? Is it Even Possible?

Scrum.org

I worked in a context where the optimizing goal was to free people’s capacity to do “better things” and to free up some cash so that the organization wouldn’t have to go to the money markets to invest in innovation. I was challenged to define organizational agility that would leave all people involved in no doubt about expectations.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. While some have publication dates that may seem old, the principles in these books are immutable, even for agile projects. Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006.