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Discovering the Diverse Sources Behind Innovation

Scrum.org

To truly capitalise on the potential of innovation, we must explore deeply within our teams, expand our perspectives across entire organisations, and even look beyond, to outside influences. When Nadella took over as CEO in 2014, he immediately began shifting the company culture towards one that embraces innovation and continuous learning.

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Project Decision-Making

Velociteach

Organizations have a culture that influences the project team’s sub-culture. Move fast and break things” was Facebook’s motto until 2014. This includes understanding their concerns, power, interest, influence and desired engagement levels. Understand the Culture Culture drives behavior.

2014 90
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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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Sverrisdottir, Ingason & Jonasson (2014) interviewed Product Owners from different organizations that there are often multiple Product Owners for the same product, even though the Scrum Guide prescribes against this. . Sverrisdottir, Ingason & Jonasson (2014) also found no standard for how much time Product Owners spend with teams.

2014 223
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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

Each approach establishes the development of project deliverables as influenced by the delivery cadence, defined as the number and timing of deliveries based on the type of deliverable. Understanding the influence of external factors allows modification of the chosen approach to meet external challenges head-on. & Burgan, D.

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Achieving Stakeholder Management Success with the Power-Interest Grid

Project Pulse Journal

A clear, actionable framework that simplifies stakeholder prioritization and analysis and enhances your ability to engage effectively with each stakeholder according to their influence and interest would help address this dilemma. Identify Stakeholders - Determine who is affected by or can affect your project.

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

Many studies have found that psychological safety has a positive influence on team effectiveness (Edmondson, 2014). In Proceedings of the symposium on interactive networked simulation for training (pp. This includes our own research with data from 2.000 Scrum teams (Verwijs & Russo, under peer review). A., & Mesmer-Magnus, J.

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

Scrum.org

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. than on individual traits. Morgan (2006) draws attention to its deeply reductionist nature.

2012 157