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Asana vs. ClickUp: In-Depth Comparison

ProjectManager.com

Certainly, Asana is simple to use and pleasing to the eyes, while ClickUp is similar to Asana, but with software development tools. Founded by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein when they met as employees at Facebook, they started with a productivity tool called Tasks and left Facebook to launch Asana in 2012.

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Lack of Education is a Root Cause of Poor Agile Performance

Scrum.org

The first paper was a 2012 study on the tensions with remote (off-shoring) teams (Ramesh et al Ambidexterity in Agile Development ISR2012). It confirmed my preconception that regular education struggles to keep up with developments in our field. Even in institutions where they teach (software) development.

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

Scrum.org

Edmondson (2012) argues that dynamic teaming is important to share and encourage learning. This is also what inspired Edmondson (2012) in her academic work on “teaming”. Even a single change in team membership can disrupt that process, and consequently, make it harder for teams to become high-performing sooner.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. This uncertainty is modeled as a stochastic process of an inherently random physical model. Now To Risk Management.

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T-shirt sizing in Agile and Waterfall Projects

Project Pulse Journal

Let us now check the world of T-shirt sizing - one of the project management tools that promises to streamline your planning process and transform it into an engaging, team-building exercise. As part of the development process, refining the backlog and assigning sizes to the tasks and features promotes efficiency in team decision-making.

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Free project management certifications

Moira Alexander

Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is one of the biggest MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platforms available and offers many project management (PM) courses. Six Sigma: Define and Measure - an introduction to the Six Sigma methodology and DMAIC cycle for process improvement with a focus on the define and measure phases.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

Scrum.org

Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Attention is the process of selectively concentrating on one aspect while ignoring other aspects. It is a mental process and a limited mental resource (Ashcraft, 2002). Together, these three considerations accommodate a process called self-organization.

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