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

Scrum.org

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? What is a sustainable pace? The notion of “sustainable pace” is closely tied to Extreme Programming practices. But that recommendation was updated to “sustainable pace” by Ron Jeffries later. Pace should be sustainable over a long time. .

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Discovering the Diverse Sources Behind Innovation

Scrum.org

When Nadella took over as CEO in 2014, he immediately began shifting the company culture towards one that embraces innovation and continuous learning. A great example of that is Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram in 2014. For example, consider the case of Satya Nadella at Microsoft. It works as a win-win solution.

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The GPM P5 Standard for Sustainability in Project Management. Who uses it and how?

Green Project Management

Last month we surveyed 15,036 individuals who have downloaded the GPM P5 standard since it was released in 2014 and received 3,600 responses. The post The GPM P5 Standard for Sustainability in Project Management. Who uses it and how?

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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). We’ve always found the following sentences useful to complete for work agreements in this area: “We encourage each other to maintain a sustainable pace by …”. When someone in our team experiences a lot of stress, we …”.

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Artificial Intelligence and Project Management: The First Step

The IIL Blog

Rich is the co-founder of EarthPM, LLC, a company devoted to integrating sustainability thinking into project management. Rich has presented on Sustainability, Project Meetings, Change Management, and PM Competency in Italy, Malaysia, Canada, South Africa, Costa Rica, China, and at many PMI Chapters in the US and around the world.

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Invested in Sustainability as a PM? You should be!

EarthPM

Few companies make it a priority to communicate their sustainability performance to investors, or even develop a robust story about their sustainability performance. Investors care more about sustainability issues than many executives believe. Why should they? Where’s the project connection?

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The argument for agile gets even more appealing…

Kiron Bondale

In addition to using this approach on the projects assessed for the 2015 report, the Group also updated their statistics for 2011-2014 using a similar protocol to ensure that year-to-year comparisons would be feasible. Sustained executive sponsorship is critical for large projects which can span multiple years.

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