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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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But as Unger-Windeler and her colleagues write (2019): “While [the] role is supposed to maximize the value of the product under development, there seemed to be several scattered results on how the Product Owner achieve this, as well as what actually constitutes this role in practice.”. And Product Owners certainly seem to play a role there.

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

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2013) actually suggests that code smells themselves are not necessarily the issue, but the length of the class being edited and the number of changes made to it over time. More troubling is that surveys suggest that a third of developers have no, or very limited, knowledge of code smells (Yamashita & Moonen, 2013).

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

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The influence of shared mental models on team process and performance. Very few studies have investigated how teams become cohesive over time, or how much time is required in order to improve performance. However, several studies show that cohesion positively impacts performance only in later stages of team development (e.g. Bradley et.

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Project Leaders have a positive and empowering mindset

Susanne Madsen

As Henry Ford said, ‘Whether you think you can or can’t, either way you are right’ As a project leader you have to take control of your internal world and thoughts so that they can influence your outer reality in a way that serves you and your team. Friedman [Ed.], Grit, TED, [Online] [link].com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_success_grit

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Jones and Stephen Cullum, arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.01621 (2019). Springer, Singapore, 2019. Categorical Variable Segmentation Model for Software Development Effort Estimation,” Petr Silhavy, Radek Silhavy, And Zdenka Prokopova, IEEE Access, 29 January 2019. 5, October 2013. 1809, 2013. “An 1 & 2, 2013. “A

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

“Project Risk Identification Based on the Interaction of Risks from the Approach of Multi-Agent Simulation,” Peng Huang, Peng Di, and Jinrui Li, 4 th International Conference of Energy Equipment Science and Engineering , 2019. 85 1 Feb 2019. “An Roeser et al (eds), Springer Briefs in Philosophy, 2013. 5, May 2013, pp.

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Is Your Agile Project Healthy?

Project Management Essentials

In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scrum team is in trouble. I recommend that agile teams have a product owner who has an understanding of the business needs, along with strong influencing skills. © 2019, Alan Zucker; Project Management Essentials, LLC. Let me know what you find.