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

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Many studies have shown that stressed developers make more mistakes (Furuyama, Arai & Lio, 1996, Sonnentag et. High-stress environments are also more likely to burn developers out (Sonnentag et. The neurological processes for this are also well-understood. 2013), and in the workplace (Manganelli, Thibault-Landry & Forest, 2018).

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

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But adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility. Adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility.”. I prefer a process-based definition of agility. Although we used Scrum teams for our investigation, these processes are generic enough to apply to Agile teams in general.

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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). HR departments can conclude that their recruitment process is working well because it is producing suitable candidates. How many candidates did the process miss that would’ve been more suitable?

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Managment Processes. Software for Your Mind: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Creating and Maintaining a Shared Vision. Integrated Master Plan: The Foundation of Program Success , College of Performance Management, May 21, 2014. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008.

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Risk Management Resources

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“A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Turof, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering , 400, 2018. “A

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Software Estimating Resources

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So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.