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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

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Recognize how much of your thinking is still subtly influenced by a mechanical perspective in organizations . like network patterning, mood, safety, social contact and social influence?—?than social influence is that much stronger. Change, resistance, and social influence. than on individual traits.

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How Thoughts Become Things - Doug Vermeeren

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And so yeah, I mean, that's the quickest way to shift your programming right now, if you feel like you got dealt a bad hand, just start leveling up that influence around you. It's something that you know, I came to near bankruptcy in 2014. And you'll see some things change in a hurry. Morris 3:27 And I couldn't agree with you more.

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Software Estimating Resources

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Benchmarking Effort Estimation Models Using Archetypal Analysis,” Nikolaos Mittas, Vagia Karpenisi, and Lefteris Angelis, ACM PROMIS ’14, September 17, 2014. Dori, IEEE Systems Journal, January 2014. “A Modeling Uncertainty when Estimating IT Projects Costs,” Michel Winter, Isabelle Mirbel, Pierre Crescenzo, Research Report, I3S, 2014.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The Influence of Selection Bias on Effort Overruns in Software Development Projects,” Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory & Institute of Informatics , University of Oslo. Armour, Communications of the ACM , January 2014, Vol. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.