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

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What is the business case for Agile teams? We think we do well to base our beliefs about Agile more on evidence. This post is our attempt to bring an evidence-based perspective to the business case of Agile teams. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams.

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

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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). This bias is also known as the ‘correspondence bias’. Examples in the workplace. Anchoring bias.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Van Waardenburg & Van Vliet (2013) offer a case study in a large organization and conclude that “The Project Manager focuses on the ’how’ of a project, the Product Owner focuses on the ’what’”. When agile meets the enterprise.

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Working Remotely? This Will Hit You Next!

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During the Ebola outbreak 2013-2016, people exhibited anxiety-invoked behavior to a large extent. Individual actions are influenced by the actions of other individuals. Mass actions are influenced by the actions of the masses. Agile processes help you to establish a high level of transparency. 2] Shultz, J.M.,

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

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Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. It also ties well into a recent post where we discussed a scientific study that showed how critical the socio-technical skills of developers are to the success of Agile transformations. This post is part of our “in-depth” series.

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

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Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. This corresponds with research on autonomous teams, as well as principles of Agile software development.

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

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But Scrum and the Agile methodologies it builds on are so much more. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Its earliest members, like Herzberg, started to investigate how the psychological processes of workers influenced their motivation. A., & Latham, G.

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