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How to improve the release frequency of your team?

Scrum.org

Goal-setting theory (Locke, 1981) shows that people are more motivated by short-term, tangible goals than by long-term goals, especially when they can influence the goals being set. Chow & Cao (2008) surveyed 109 Agile projects. Each iteration then provides a clear short-term that teams can work towards.

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Get Motivated: 10 Motivational Speeches That Will Change Your Life

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What’s amazing about people is, despite the external forces at play on our constitution, we can always be influenced by attitude. Rowling, Commencement Speech, Harvard, 2008. He opens young minds in this speech to the fact that as educated as they might be, they can still hold a closed mind. Rowling, too? Oprah motivates daily.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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It is no surprise that the researchers conclude that “Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence”. Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence.”.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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Is it really that important that they are autonomous, able to release frequently, interact closely with stakeholders and spend all that time on continuous improvement? However, the sheer effort involved is so gargantuan that this is close to impossible. 2014 ; Young & Jordan, 2008 ; Russo, 2021 ). Or is all that just hype?

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And will make the decision to close the project down early if it can no longer meet its objectives. In every case, you should have people on the group who understand the project (or who can be brought up to speed) and who have influence and interest in the outcomes. In other words, this is the group that takes the tough decisions.

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

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Initially coined by cognitive psychologist Lee Ross (1977), it happens when people underestimate the influence of the situation on the behavior of others while overestimating the influence of their personal traits and beliefs (Berry, 2015). Research (Janiszewski & Uy, 2008) even shows that precise offers (e.g. Anchoring bias.

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

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This concern is also present in academic literature, where authors like Mathieu and his colleagues (2008) and Mortensen and Haas (2018) point out that there is a research gap because studies are often based on stable teams, whereas this is often not the case in the modern workplace. Closing Words. Mathieu, J. Heffner, T. Goodwin, G.