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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

The idea of the organization as a machine has become so ingrained and pervasive in management practices and theories in the past fifty years, that it is hard to even be aware of it. and attributes much of it to scientific management. The most significant criticism of scientific management?—?and

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Resources for Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The planned uncertainty not only needs to decrease over time passing, but this reduction diminishes any impacts of risk on the decision-making processes. Rather than update Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated) again, let me provide a bibliography of papers describing the origins of the Cone and it's use in the management of Programs.

2007 34
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Principle Based Management

Herding Cats

In that simple statement is the key to Principle Based Management of Other People’s money. †. The second school of thought involves “principle-based leadership/management”—that is, trusting people in leadership positions to make good decisions even without a rule to hide behind. It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is.

2010 34
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Webinar Recap: Those darn Risk Register boxes! What really goes in there?

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Carl Pritchard’s session, Those darn Risk Register boxes! Kyle: Hello everyone and welcome to today’s MPUG webinar, Those Darn Risk Register Boxes! I want to welcome you because I’m the risk guy. I’ve been PMI’s risk guy.

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

When I first started thinking through this idea, I was actually really thinking about the idea of practices because back in 2010, a little bit earlier than that, Jim Kundiff, the Scrum Alliance, and those guys were really popularizing the CSM certification, PMI was doing the PMI ACP or a lot of us were part of that. He goes, yeah, I get it.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

One of our clients, a retired USAF Col Program Manager at an NNSA Weapons Testing Site has a statement that is applicable here: If you lack academic basis and validated experience, your advice is simply unsubstantiated opinion without any basis in fact or principle. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. Andreou, 3rd Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Software Engineering Workshop , 7 October, 2010, Larnaca, Cyprus. 3, 2010, “Empirical Estimation of Hybrid Model: A Controlled Case Study,” Sadaf Un Nisa and M. 3, August 2012.