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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

Scrum.org

Since I became a Professional Scrum Trainer in November, I have been asked a lot about the current state, and the future perspectives, for Scrum and agile development in Japan, where I’ve worked for the last six years. Yet, Scrum and the principles of agile development are not as common in Japan as they are in other parts of the world.

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7 Uncomfortable Truths for Project Managers

ProjectManager.com

Famously, software engineer and author Tim Lister said that: “Risk management is how adults manage projects.” You’ll Get the Project Team You Deserve. Because the uncomfortable truth here is that you get the team that you deserve. And if you are bad, then the universe will punish you. Employ the assets you deliver.

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

Inloox

A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. These popular “laws” from literature, business and research can help you deal more positively in your everyday work with situations in which not everything goes according to plan. Lakein's Law: "Failing to plan is planning to fail."

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Creating the Conditions for High-Performance Development Teams

Leading Agile

I invited them here to have a conversation with me because I was out with clients doing presale stuff and working with executives on the teams and the conversation around full stack teams, software craftsmanship, clean coding, different strategies for how to get developers engaged and involved was coming up.

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Five reasons why Scrum is not helping in getting twice the work done in half the time

Scrum.org

I have listed the top 5 reasons that don’t allow the team to gain such productivity but feel free to suggest more. Scrum doesn’t help complete the product faster rather than how quickly a team can release a product. If you are an old establishment, bad news for you, you have to invest a lot to be like a startup.

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Product-Market Fit: What Is It & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

If there’s a fit, then there’s demand, and the whole enterprise has a green light to move forward with planning its product. You can thank Marc Andreessen , the American entrepreneur, investor and software engineer, for the hyphenated phrase. That’s the first step of smart product development.

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How to hire remote developers (with free remote job description template)

Planio

As Steve Jobs famously put it, a small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players. Jump to a section: How to hire remote developers (and other teammates) in 10 steps. Step 1: Decide if it’s the right time to hire remote developers. But getting them to join your team is a skill on its own.