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On Technical Debt And Code Smells: Surprising insights from scientific studies

Scrum.org

Why is code quality so often an issue? Why do software teams?—?despite So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”. Technical Debt and Code Smells.

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

Kanban history has informed everything from manufacturing to software development. For those unsure what kanban is, we’ll first explain the kanban system and then go into kanban history from its development to its uses in manufacturing, project management and software development.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is a simple project management framework that facilitates team collaboration on complex product and software development projects.

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5 Ways To Use Visual Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s a lot easier to communicate complex constructs or share lots of data points on a graph than it is in a paragraph. That has always been the case, but today, technology makes it even easier for us to pull out the data that’s required and present it in a way that is simple to understand. Why visual project management matters.

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

Scrum.org

And we share results from our own analyses based on actual data from stakeholders and Scrum teams that we collected through the Scrum Team Survey. Daniel Russo of the University of Aalborg to answer this question with data from almost 2.000 Scrum teams. We collected the data through our Scrum Team Survey. We worked with Prof.

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Microsoft Project Alternatives for 2020

Binfire

To say the market for project management software is crowded in 2020 is the understatement of the century. By the last count, there are around 120 vendors who sell some type of project management software. Due Time in addition to the start date and Due date . Data export. Data Import. Milestones.

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

Scrum.org

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). You can read more about this here. How to coordinate the use of skills.

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