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

Scrum.org

High cohesion also comes with risks, such as groupthink and conformity to group opinions (McCauley, 1998). Specifically for Agile teams, Whitworth & Biddle (2007) found that commitment to team goals increases cohesion, team effectiveness, knowledge sharing, and feedback processes. Closing words. 2007, August).

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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IWAS PCH WC 2022 Entry 0: Introduction

Gunther Verheyen

In November 2007, at the age of 6 and after a disturbingly bumpy road of a few years’ searching for the (medical) cause of his physical problems, our oldest son was diagnosed with “Duchenne” (which is short for “Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy” or DMD, see Wikipedia ).

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

Its foundation is built on rapid feedback loops, continuous improvement, and high-quality output, which aligns it more closely with Agile principles than the sequential, phase-gated approach of Waterfall. XP was developed in the late 1990s by Kent Beck during his work at the Chrysler Corporation. What Makes XP Agile?

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Project Management Worker Engagement

The IIL Blog

Some leaders maintain a close and trusting relationship with team members throughout the project whereas other leaders might opt for a more distant relationship especially with diverse team members that are geographically dispersed. Engagement activities do not end at the completion of the staffing process or shortly thereafter. Pendry et al.,

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

Planio

And since 2007, that community has included the Planio team! With literally thousands of professional developers examining the code, the result is software that’s protected against any risk you can imagine. The Planio team has been contributing directly to Redmine since 2007 and know the system inside out. Reliability.

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