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

Scrum.org

The idea of the organization as a machine has become so ingrained and pervasive in management practices and theories in the past fifty years, that it is hard to even be aware of it. and attributes much of it to scientific management. The most significant criticism of scientific management?—?and

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

One of our clients, a retired USAF Col Program Manager at an NNSA Weapons Testing Site has a statement that is applicable here: If you lack academic basis and validated experience, your advice is simply unsubstantiated opinion without any basis in fact or principle. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. Fixed price without fixed specification,” Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory, 15 March 2016. Springer International Publishing, 2016. Story Point Estimating,” Richard Carlson, ALEA, Agile and Lean Associates, 2013.

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Clarifying Misconceptions of the Big Launch

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What really works might surprise you – it’s definitely something to work on when you are thinking about positive project risk! However, as students of the lean entrepreneurship movement hear repeatedly, it’s usually not a good idea to launch your product with a “big bang.” Copyright 2016.

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