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Building blocks of the next generation of Organisations

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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

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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

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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 Laws to Help with Transformation

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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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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

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Whether you're looking to streamline your development process, enhance team collaboration, or deliver higher-value products to your customers, these Agile methodologies offer valuable strategies to achieve your goals. Flexibility and openness to change are keys to sustaining project management success.

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Risk Management Resources

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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. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. requires making estimates)

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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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. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.