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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”. In this post, I summarize the insights from the study by Tufano and draw in more recent research. Technical Debt and Code Smells.

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Women in Project Management: Rachel Mata

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Today I’m interviewing Rachel Mata , Lead Project Manager at Edu-tech company Instructor Brandon. What was that experience like, studying while working? It was a true challenge because studying takes time and dedication. Working 12 hours a day does not open much space for studying. It came to me from nowhere.

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PMI’s Pulse of the Profession 2020: Creating a Future-Oriented Project Management Culture

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We will present the most important results of the study and explain the significance of these trend developments for project management in the future. From the development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence to the demand for greater social responsibility and the ever-changing expectations of consumers. An average 11.4

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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But as Unger-Windeler and her colleagues write (2019): “While [the] role is supposed to maximize the value of the product under development, there seemed to be several scattered results on how the Product Owner achieve this, as well as what actually constitutes this role in practice.”. And Product Owners certainly seem to play a role there.

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

At its core, Kanban is inherently Agile due to its emphasis on continuous improvement, flexibility, and responsiveness to change - qualities that are less pronounced in the sequential, phase-gated Waterfall model. Feedback Loops – Incorporate regular meetings to review and adapt your workflow based on feedback.

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Remote Work and Scrum

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There have been numerous studies on the productivity of workers during Covid forced work from home and also prior to Covid. Prodoscore looked at 800,000 workers and found that when comparing 2019 to after March 2020 that workers were a staggering 47% more productive. And what does this mean for remote Scrum Teams?

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Focusing on What Matters #IPMDay19

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The study concluded that it’s the nature of the work, not the individual, that makes the work a risk to our wellbeing. The study looked at how project professionals feel about their work. What the Study Said. The study found project professionals have a worse work/life balance than the average worker.