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Agile Laws to Help with Transformation

Scrum.org

The idea has been around for several years: design the teams according to the product requirements and give them autonomy to create the best possible solution from both a value proposition and an organizational sustainability perspective. Waiting too long before shipping or pursuing perfection is not an option.

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Building blocks of the next generation of Organisations

Scrum.org

Having devoted communities aid in the organisation's ability to conduct its business, sustain itself, and produce excellent results. Sadly, there is a knowledge gap in assisting organisations in understanding strategies that can influence their agility and support teams in change. Co-workers ? Coworkers are no longer colleagues.

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

Scrum.org

Several empirical studies have indeed found that teams with a frequent delivery strategy are more likely to deliver successful project outcomes and satisfy stakeholders than teams that do not ( Chow & Cao, 2008 , Jørgensen, 2016 ). Ultimately, the role of (top) management is to keep their business healthy and economically sustainable.

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Agile Project Management Principles

Binfire

8-Agile processes promote sustainable development. Your project development team should be able to stay focus and work under conditions which are sustainable. Project teams often run into problems when the development is not sustainable. 9-Continuous attention to technical excellence. If you are not using Agile yet, you should.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Turof, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering , 400, 2018. “A

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Turof, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering , 400, 2018. “A