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

Scrum.org

This is the ability of team members to act in concert without explicit coordination (MacMillan, Entin & Serfaty, 2004). Butchibabu and her colleagues (2016) performed an experiment with 13 teams. Many studies have found that psychological safety has a positive influence on team effectiveness (Edmondson, 2014).

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

It is no surprise that the researchers conclude that “Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence”. Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence.”.

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Working Remotely? This Will Hit You Next!

Scrum.org

Despite the rapidness of the change, moving to remote worked surprisingly well for many teams, because they were used to some degree of remote work before. Especially development teams and technology firms in general have many years of experience with allowing their workforce to do their jobs from wherever and whenever they like.

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Project Success: Implementation AND Adoption

The IIL Blog

The development team was devastated. In my consulting practice, I see development teams struggling with their users. We should plan our development to build small, usable components that allow users to regularly review, validate, and provide feedback on the emerging application. Leaders embrace change.

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Fight Club for Project Managers: 12 Powerful Conflict Resolution Techniques for the Workplace

Planio

We’ve quoted this stat before, but a 2016 Harvard Business Review study found that 69% of managers say they’re uncomfortable communicating with employees. For example, instead of “You never listen to feedback from the development team.”. That’s not good.

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28 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

This is an ongoing process in which the Product Owner and the Development Team collaborate on the details of Product Backlog items. During Product Backlog refinement, items are reviewed and revised. The Scrum Team decides how and when refinement is done. The Development Team is responsible for all estimates.

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Ideas on How to Improve Your Product Backlog Management Techniques

Scrum.org

This is an ongoing process in which the Product Owner and the Development Team collaborate on the details of Product Backlog items. During Product Backlog refinement, items are reviewed and revised. The Scrum Team decides how and when refinement is done. The Development Team is responsible for all estimates.