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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

Scientists call this shared understanding team cognition. It has been linked to higher performance and motivation (Mathieu et al, 2000), increased effectiveness (Kearny, Gebert & Voelpel, 2009), and generally explains a substantial amount of the variance (~19%) in the effectiveness of teams (De Church & Mesmer-Magnus, 2010).

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How to Hybrid: Setting Up the Team

International Institute for Learning

The sponsor will review the schedule status, budget status, projected work for the next reporting period, and any new significant risks and issues. We are constantly drawing on these skills – for example, communicating effectively, facilitating meetings, solving problems, influencing without authority, and negotiating.

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

Scrum.org

Research has linked team cognition to higher performance and motivation (Mathieu et al, 2000), increased effectiveness (Kearny, Gebert & Voelpel, 2009), and generally explains a substantial amount of the variance (~19%) in the effectiveness of teams (De Church & Mesmer-Magnus, 2010). It takes time to develop teams.

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Why Great (Scrum) Teams Have A Mind Of Their Own

Scrum.org

At the end of this post you will have learned: How team cognition is essentially the “mind of a team”, with its own memory and perception of the world. What team cognition is and how substantial its influence is on the effectiveness of teams according to large-scale research efforts.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Project Success Assessment - A checklist for assessing the processes for project success.

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The Urge to Strangle(The Strangler Pattern)

Leading Agile

They know their solutions are of local scope, but they lack the power or influence to drive a comprehensive solution. I was showing their development teams how to automate functional tests using Cucumber. During a workshop for one of the teams, I learned they did not write or maintain application code.