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

Scrum.org

Why is code quality so often an issue? Why do software teams?—?despite So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”. Technical Debt and Code Smells.

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Paid Time Off Study – 2018 Statistics & Whitepaper

ProjectManager.com

In today’s society, paid time off is seemingly more valuable than ever, as the line between a person’s professional life and their personal life continues to blur due to rapidly advancing technology and an expectation to be “always on.” . What Our Paid Time Off Study Reveals.

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The PMI-SP Certification & uCertify Training Course Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The PMI Project Management Salary Survey (2018 ) doesn’t specifically call out PMI-SP as a certification, but it does talk about the average salaries of someone in a project management specialist role. Project Management Salary Survey (2018). The PMI-SP exam is 3.5 hours long.

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Project Management Trends: 2018 Topics to Watch

LiquidPlanner

Here are five trends that project managers should be watching out for in 2018. I’ve spoken to dozens of project managers this year and surveyed more than 200. Industries like construction, software engineering, and consultancy probably see this as less of an issue. peer to peer support is going to be even more important in 2018.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

And we share results from our own analyses based on actual data from stakeholders and Scrum teams that we collected through the Scrum Team Survey. We collected the data through our Scrum Team Survey. Fortunately, the Scrum Team Survey allows teams to ask their stakeholders to evaluate their outcomes. Cardozo et.

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The Best Time Tracking Software of 2018

Paymo App

Published: February 2018. If you’re here, it means that you’re looking for time tracking software that you will use yourself or with your team. Reviews: Even though every tool works in distinct ways for each business, you can take a look at what existing users have to say. 5 from 325 reviews on G2 Crowd.

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Study on status of project managers in 2018

Binfire

In 2016 we did a very small study and surveyed around 100 project managers to find out more about where they work and other details about their work. For 2018 we have done a much more comprehensive study of the project manager’s profession. We also surveyed 1080 project managers in the USA, UK, Europe, Israel, India, and Japan.

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