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

Scrum.org

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”. This post is ideal for developers with some experience, and for people who support developers in the development of their technical skills.

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Brief comparison between MSP 5th edition and MSP 2011 edition

Henny Portman

Organization MSP 5 th edition MSP 2011 edition Sponsoring group Sponsoring group Programme board Programme board Programme office Programme office Senior responsible owner (SRO) Senior responsible owner (SRO) Programme Manager Programme Manager Business Change Manager (BCM) Business Change Manager (BCM). Two themes are more or less new.

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

Scrum.org

Bushe and Chu (2011) identify seven situations that drive the use of fluid teaming in those environments: High turnover among employees, leading to changes in teams. This is probably due to the difficulty of measuring many teams over a long period of time. Closing Words. The need for fluid teams. Bradley et.

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

Scrum.org

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. So we went to Google Scholar and searched for review articles.

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Benefits of Scaled Agile Framework ( SAFe®) – Agilemania

Agilemania

The year was 2011 and there was a pressing need for a scaling framework that could help large organizations design efficient systems to build enterprise level products/solutions to cater to customer’s rapidly changing needs. Finally, let’s cut the suspense and closely at the common reasons to use SAFe.

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5 Tools and Tactics To Manage Projects With Your Outsourcing Partner

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’m sure it won’t surprise you to know that I’m a big fan of tech that helps you do the job more effectively. Often this is (or can be) arranged as a vendor inventory list on the basis of priority; this helps you determine the payments due and forecast the assets and liabilities of the firm, focusing on your most important partnerships first.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

Scrum.org

software estimation”), and then select “review articles” under “type” on the left. Note that there are at least 4 reviews of other research available here about estimation in Scrum. I always find it most helpful to start with a review article, and then investigate their references more fully. Not all academics are great writers.

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