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Practical Fibonacci: A Beginner's Guide to Relative Sizing

Scrum.org

A traditional or Waterfall software development lifecycle includes a long and detailed planning period to define requirements before beginning development. I have little experience or high time pressure; therefore, the estimate is influenced. 2006, Jørgensen and Grimstad). Relative Sizing. The anecdote to ambiguity is agility.

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

Scrum.org

Recognize how much of your thinking is still subtly influenced by a mechanical perspective in organizations . like network patterning, mood, safety, social contact and social influence?—?than Morgan (2006) explores the roots of this mechanical perspective?—?or Morgan (2006) draws attention to its deeply reductionist nature.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

What defines fluid and stable teams? Kozlowski & Ilgen (2006) describe this reciprocity as “process begets structure, which in turn guides process”. Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. Bradley et.

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Episode 174 – Team Up with Emotional Intelligence and Deliver Successful Projects

Velociteach

We couldn’t define them. Let’s focus on what we can measure easily and define, which is, you know, IQ, cognitive intelligence. And so essentially emotional intelligence is a great way to define social skills. First, we spent a decade trying to define it. We didn’t know how to measure them. That’s one thing.

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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. To make a complex practice like project management simpler, the most recent version of the PMBOK breaks the core project management processes down into five sections: Initiating : Defining a new project or a new phase of an existing project. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.

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How to Measure Success? Is it Even Possible?

Scrum.org

I was challenged to define organizational agility that would leave all people involved in no doubt about expectations. Outside of my sphere of influence, the trends flatlined, therefore no improvement. . This ties in with the well-researched work of Richard Hackman in his book Leading Reams (Hackman, 2006). It was non-tech.

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The Ultimate Redmine Guide: How to set up and supercharge the best open source project management tool

Planio

There’s a reason startups are obsessed with “community” and influencers tell you to find your “tribe”. Since Jean-Philippe Lang released the first version of Redmine in 2006, an active community has sprung up to optimize and expand the original code. Redmine was launched in 2006 and is still being regularly updated.

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