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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

like choosing for Scrum?—?they These norms range from very basic ones, like attending a Daily Scrum every day, to abstract ones like “work together towards a shared goal instead of working on your own tasks” and “delivery small, working bits of product frequently instead of huge chunks occasionally”. Why Is Change Hard?

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Innovation: Running Experiments and Learning

Leading Answers

The New Yorker  magazine [3] describes numerous studies that show how brainstorming groups think of fewer, lower-quality ideas than the same number of people who work alone and later pool their ideas. CPS is the study of how we work together in groups to solve new problems, innovate and build products.

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Becoming Agile: Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their hearts and minds had been won decades ago. It is still in the gallery of my mind's eye: "Study of a suit in shock". The face that framed it was a picture.

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#PMOT – Who are the Project Managers on Twitter to Follow?

Online PM Courses

Scrum Alliance : @ScrumAlliance. SCRUM ALLIANCE® is the largest professional membership organization in the #Agile community: scrumalliance.org. Dedicated to improving the profession of software delivery by leading the maturity and evolution of Scrum. PM Today Magazine: @ ProjectMToday. AgileAlliance.org. p3m.global.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

Scrum.org

What contexts are Scrum suited to, and which not? What if you end up applying a methodology like Scrum to a context where it isn’t suited, and people leave the company as a result? when everyone is pro-Scrum, or against SAFe or against estimation, or exclusively Scrum Masters? Is scaling always a bad idea?

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The Best Project Management Blogs for 2019

Online PM Courses

This is a magazine site that seems to make its money through site adverts and affiliate links. Ours are often comprehensive how-to articles and in-depth studies of a key Project Management idea. But they repay study. Stefan Wolpers gets deep into Agile, and Scrum in particular. If you like it, bookmark it. PM World 360.

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Too many rules makes agility impossible

Henny Portman

Studies from the Standish Group and recorded in one of their Chaos reports shows that 60% of developed features are not or rarely used. If we compare the number of rules of Scrum with SAFe you could ask yourself if you are successful and using agile release trains, if this is due to SAFe’s rules or despite? Agile manifesto.

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