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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

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This post is for anyone who wants to inspire, change or influence others through their efforts as professionals, with emphasis on the latter. I think you should read this post, and take it to heart when you write content that is aimed at influencing others. References in academic papers are also a good source.

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

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Some find the process of creating them “childish” or “a waste of time”. Illustration by Thea Schukken The process of creating a skill matrix and having an open and honest conversation about the skills and what each of the member's needs from others are probably more important than the work agreements that come out of it.

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

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Recognize how much of your thinking is still subtly influenced by a mechanical perspective in organizations . like network patterning, mood, safety, social contact and social influence?—?than The mechanical perspective draws attention to the structure and processes of organizations. than on individual traits.

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In-Depth: How Scrum Motivates Teams Through Goals And Autonomy

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Its earliest members, like Herzberg, started to investigate how the psychological processes of workers influenced their motivation. Autonomy : the autonomy that people have to schedule and perform their work as they see fit, including the process by which to execute it. So autonomy seems important.

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

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Ross & Nisbett (2011) offer an extensive overview of research in this area. . 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).

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

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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. Even a single change in team membership can disrupt that process, and consequently, make it harder for teams to become high-performing sooner. The need for fluid teams.

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

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But adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility. Adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility.”. I prefer a process-based definition of agility. Although we used Scrum teams for our investigation, these processes are generic enough to apply to Agile teams in general.

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