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Discovering the Diverse Sources Behind Innovation

Scrum.org

Executives & Senior Leadership In many organisations executives and senior leadership serve as catalysts for creativity. When Nadella took over as CEO in 2014, he immediately began shifting the company culture towards one that embraces innovation and continuous learning. It works as a win-win solution.

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Chess and Business Strategy

International Institute for Learning

Undoubtedly the chess game is fascinating because it implies deep thinking, strategy, and prediction ability. It is often seen analogous to a business strategy. By knowing the value, it is easier to make decisions about game strategy and placement. By Luigi Morsa, Ph.D. Each piece in a chess game has a specific value.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

What strategies make them more?—?or 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. . This makes the Product Owner clearly a leadership role.

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

The Benefits of Understanding Development Approaches A good grasp of this domain facilitates process streamlining and implements simplification strategies that enhance deliverable precision without compromising the project's integrity. This vision clarity ensures that all steps, decisions, and adaptations align with the project's goals.

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Project Decision-Making

Velociteach

Move fast and break things” was Facebook’s motto until 2014. Strategic initiatives have higher visibility and require greater leadership engagement than a small maintenance project. The tyranny of the majority/minority, lowest common denominator solutions, ramrodding, or blocking strategies may prevail.

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Why All Entrepreneurs Should Have Project Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

Basic project management skills that could significantly help founders and owners of startups and small businesses include defining goals, setting strategy, devising a plan and outlining actions, and then weekly prioritizing and tracking actions through to completion. But you can’t be a great leader unless you can communicate with people.

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

Scrum.org

It is very similar to work engagement (Schaufeli & Salanova, 2014), which we also measure in both the Scrum Team Survey and TeamMetrics (as “team morale”). If the team is facing a stressful situation, what strategies will you apply to make the situation less stressful? Meditation and breathing techniques are also very helpful.