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

Scrum.org

Why is code quality so often an issue? Why do software teams?—?despite So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”. Technical Debt and Code Smells.

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The unbreakable bond: How outstanding service = brand loyalty

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Deskpro COO, Paul Davies, emphasizes the significance of prioritizing customer experience as a central growth strategy. Apply this in your projects Code software to add in customers’ names and default to their location. Don’t ask for information you already have in the system.

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Dependency Management – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Scrum.org

Dependencies are an epidemic in software development. The good news is, there are strategies you can use to move your teams from managing dependencies to mitigating dependencies. Sutherland, Scrum Guide, 2013. Scrum Master or Tech Manager. And, some large-scale systems changes require some level of dependencies.

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

Scrum.org

So we went to Google Scholar and searched for review articles. 2010) reviewed 28 scientific studies that investigated how Scrum is associated with overall business outcomes. A strength of such a review is that it allows for the identification of patterns across many studies. Journal of systems and software , 81 (6), 961–971.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

What strategies make them more?—?or 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’”. This includes training, technical support, and preparation for new releases.

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Best agency project management software: 10 tools to short-list today – Part 5

Resource Guru

Between tabs, color codes, and comments, the time spent on admin is valuable time that could be spent (actually) enabling project success. We’re here to help you evaluate and choose the best software that will help enable growth at your agency. Far too many agencies are still using spreadsheets to manage high-stakes projects.

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5 Effective Strategies to Better Manage a Distributed Team

Proofhub

A distributed team is a group of individuals who work across time, space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology. According to a survey conducted by FlexJobs and Global Workplace Analytics, 85% of businesses confirm that productivity has increased due to greater flexibility.