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Paid Time Off Study – 2018 Statistics & Whitepaper

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

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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”. This post is ideal for developers with some experience, and for people who support developers in the development of their technical skills.

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Hey Scrum Master — What Are You Doing all Day? [Survey Results]

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Hence I ran a survey in late June and early July 2018, the results of which are presented here. In total, 261 Scrum Masters participated in this non-representative survey in the two weeks before July 5th, 2018. Scrum Master Duties: Survey Results. The survey was not designed to gain this kind of information.

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Club Scrum: What Are You Doing all Day, ChatGPT — as a Scrum Master?

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A few years ago, I ran a survey to figure out what Scrum Masters serving a single Scrum team do all day. Setting up the Interview I used the same questionnaire from 2018 for this run of the Club Scrum interview and resisted the urge to grammarly it to maintain comparability. TL; DR: Club Scrum — You, too, ChatGPT? However, 1.25

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Success in Disruptive Times: PMI’s 2018 Pulse of the Profession

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The PMI has titled its 2018 Pulse of the Profession report: Success in Disruptive Times. The PMI’s Annual Project Management Survey: The Pulse of the Profession. Our regular readers will know that, for the last two years, we have extracted the marrow from the bones of the PMI’s Pulse of the Profession survey.

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

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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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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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Julian Bass and his colleagues (2018) investigated which core activities Product Owners spent their time on in ten multinationals. This includes training, technical support, and preparation for new releases. Data from our Scrum Team Survey may shed a light on this. Insight #2: Eight Core Activities, Each Requiring Mandate.

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