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In-Depth: The Science On Sustainable Pace, Stress, And Motivation

Scrum.org

This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 2012) provides a great perspective on what creates intrinsic motivation.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

DA was developed in 2011 by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines and is based on Scott’s work at Rational Software and IBM. Dean Leffingwell released the first version of SAFe in 2012. Without strong leadership support and commitment, change efforts fail. It is a virtual team of 75-125 people aligned to support a value stream.

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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.