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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. Oprah Winfrey, Commencement Address, Stanford, 2008. She does that and more with these inspiring words for the Stanford class of 2008. Rowling, too?

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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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Another approach is to track many organizations over time as they adopt Agile methodologies, while also measuring anything else that could influence their results other than agility itself. 2014 ; Young & Jordan, 2008 ; Russo, 2021 ). SCRUM and productivity in software projects: a systematic literature review. 2010, April).

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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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Leveraging Evidence-Based Management and Achieving Organizational Change through Larman’s Laws

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Understanding the organization’s core Before initiating organizational change, you will need to understand the underlying factors influencing an organization's functions. The ROWE Experiment In late 2008, the Gap Inc. It could be a new software or even a fresh approach to meetings. Let’s see these concepts in action.

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

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There have been some recent posts about managing scope, defining needed Features, determining how to release software to stakeholders - in both traditional and agile processes. This document is all but unknown in the Enterprise IT domain and completely unknown in the agile software development world. Davis, Russell D.

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Software Estimating Resources

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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. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian