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On Technical Debt And Code Smells: Surprising insights from scientific studies

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Why is code quality so often an issue? Why do software teams?—?despite But also a field that has much to say about code quality and how we can be better developers. Technical Debt and Code Smells.

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And what are the weak points? As I said, PRINCE2 doesn’t cover working with people and as team management and getting the best out of the people is what we all do every day, this seems like a big oversight on the part of PRINCE2, especially as project boards form such a critical part of the standard. No, not that I’m aware of.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Project Management Software & Tools. Keys to Project Success: 48% say the team’s technical skills. 26% say effective team communication. Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Feature Development Driven – 9%. Dynamic Systems Development Method – 3%. Poor purchasing processes: 23%.

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How We Made Our Customer The Product Owner

Scrum.org

From 2010–2015 I worked as a Scrum Master for a web agency. We developed software solutions for external clients. In this article, I’ll share how we addressed this challenge, what experiments we tried, and what insights I gained from the period after 2015. That’s in a nutshell the approach we used within our Scrum team.

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How to Steer Your Team Away From the 2021 Burnout Epidemic

Proofhub

How To Steer Your Team Away From The 2021 Burnout Epidemic Source: [link] In May 2019, The World Health Organization (WHO) characterized “burnout” as “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed,” and emphasized that the term “burnout” shouldn’t be used to describe experiences in areas of life outside of the workplace.

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

Scrum.org

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. The initial practice was for developers to work no more than 40 hours a week.

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How To Steer Your Team Away From The 2021 Burnout Epidemic

Proofhub

Pre-Pandemic Burnout Source: [link] The term “burnout” was coined in the 1970s to describe the exhaustion, listlessness, and inability to cope experienced by workers in “helping professions,” such as doctors and nurses, due to the severe stress and high ideals associated with their work. were working at home due to the pandemic.

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