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

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It is very similar to work engagement (Schaufeli & Salanova, 2014), which we also measure in both the Scrum Team Survey and TeamMetrics (as “team morale”). al, 2013), healthcare professionals (Papathanasiou et. 2013), and in the workplace (Manganelli, Thibault-Landry & Forest, 2018). In Achieving Quality in Software (pp.

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

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Many studies have identified high autonomy as an important prerequisite for Agile teams ( Moe, Dingsøyr & Dybå, 2010 ; Donmez & Gudela, 2013 ; Tripp & Armstrong, 2018 ; Melo et. 2014 ; Young & Jordan, 2008 ; Russo, 2021 ). A survey study of critical success factors in agile software projects. 2013, June). Cruzes, D.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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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. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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“Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). The Use of Precision of Software Development Effort Estimates to Communicate Uncertainty,” Magne Jørgensen, Software Quality Days. “The

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Software Estimating Resources

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Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.

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

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Survival bias happens when failures are ignored when you are evaluating if a process or decision is the right one (Schermer, 2014). This is a significant problem with popular business books, like “ Good to Great ” and stories about successful CEO’s, that only focus on the successes but ignore the failures (Schermer, 2014). Liersch, M.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

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But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. Daniels, Complex Adaptive Systems, Procedia Computer Science, 20 (2013), pp.

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