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Agile Laws to Help with Transformation

Scrum.org

Your single best investment to improve your professional standing; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Brooks’ Law Frederick Brooks stated in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” edition ! ?

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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

Inloox

" Probably the most famous of all management laws is attributed to American military pilot and aerospace engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. Entire books have been devoted to explaining this law. " Larry Constantine is a software engineer and designer who pioneered the Structured Design approach to software development.

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Building blocks of the next generation of Organisations

Scrum.org

Sadly, there is a knowledge gap in assisting organisations in understanding strategies that can influence their agility and support teams in change. This is especially true for organisations that need to change quickly and pursue new strategies. He loves reading books, travelling and public speaking. Voluntary co-ordination.

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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson

Scrum.org

From the long list of observation, heuristics, and mental models in psychology, organizational design, or software engineering, I pick six “agile laws” that seem to be particularly relevant in this area of distributed agile teams: Conway’s Law. Agile Laws: Conway, Brooks, Hackman, Goodhart, Larman, and Parkinson. Brooks’s Law.

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23 Project Management Books for All Experience Levels

Wrike

So while you want to learn more about project management — either to pick up new skills or sharpen the ones you’ve already developed — you don’t have unlimited hours to read every book on the subject. Which project management books are best for your experience level? 23 Project Management Books for All Levels.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

What strategies make them more?—?or The accountabilities listed there do feel more administrative than imaginative, even though the latter is emphasized in popular articles and books on Product Ownership. Much of this revolves around the product vision, strategy, and purpose of the work. Or writing items for the Product Backlog?

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The Science of Growth [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the premise behind the book. The book presents interesting case studies of pairs of companies where one has been successful and one hasn’t. Women in Science, Engineering and Technology. Comparing Companies. As it is, it’s a playbook for startups.