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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

This is the ability of team members to act in concert without explicit coordination (MacMillan, Entin & Serfaty, 2004). This effect has been observed with flight crews (Orasuna, 1990), nuclear plant control crews (Waller, Gupta & Giambatista, 2004), and work teams (Urban et. Academy of Management journal , 52 (3), 581–598. Pruitt, D.

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Get Motivated: 10 Motivational Speeches That Will Change Your Life

ProjectManager.com

What’s amazing about people is, despite the external forces at play on our constitution, we can always be influenced by attitude. Barack Obama, DNC Speech, 2004. If your coworkers or managers can motivate you, suddenly that hidden resource is tapped, and you’re ready to get up and go again with renewed energy and focus.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I took my first Practitioner course in 2004. The relationships part of this principle’s title is all about the project ecosystem and how soft power and networks influence the way work gets done. It’s a customizable way of managing and controlling the work. It’s tailorable and suitable for projects of all sizes, large and small.

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

Scrum.org

It happens, for example, when we don’t trust a certain person or group of people, and then only see behavior that fits with our belief (or even interpret it as such) without considering observations where they don’t (Oswald & Grosjean, 2004). The influence of initial anchoring is less, especially when I take care not to anchor myself again.

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Test First approach sounds simply enough, right?

Scrum.org

This influence on software design and architecture became so important, beside the other positive effects, that Beck found it worthwhile to rename it from Test-First Programming to Test-Driven Development. Behaviour-Driven Development (est 2004). Independently Developable. Independently Reasonable. Test-Driven Development 2.0 (est

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The Origins of Scrum Might Not Be What You Think They Are (Wisdom from Rafael Sabbagh)

Gunther Verheyen

He highlights this work as a major influence on the introduction of Scrum at Easel Corporation. 20, 2004: pp. They’ve evolved and kept sustaining them since then and deserve all the credit for that. Jeff Sutherland refers to Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions in at least two articles he wrote in the early days of Scrum (2).

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How to Create a Project Team Culture with Colin Ellis

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the things I noticed probably post 2004, when we all went a bit method crazy, was that it’s a bit of a dying art, this creating teams thing. For the last three years I was working in New Zealand, I worked as a contractor, and I had way more influence as a contractor than I ever did as a permanent employee.