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What do you call a Product Owner with no authority?

Kiron Bondale

In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. K nowledgeable – Do they have sufficient product domain knowledge but also the organizational savvy to know who to engage, influence or persuade?

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Is Blue-print Thinking Limiting The Potential Of The Agile Community?

Scrum.org

Fortunately, with “The Colors of Change”, De Caluwé en Vermaak (2003) brings a more accessible approach that is also quite compatible. In its simplest form, De Caluwé en Vermaak (2003) offers a “color theory” that primarily uses five colors to describe five perspectives of change. How can we expand their influence?

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Why is Cognitive Diversity important? How to promote it?

Scrum.org

I found that three main factors influence how to make a high-performance team. Intelligence today is divided into many different kinds; Christopher Earley and Soon Ang introduced the concept of "Cultural Intelligence" in the 2003 book of the same name. Cognitive diversity. Cultural intelligence (CQ).

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The Definitive Guide to Project Sponsors

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A sponsor who is not implicated in the delivery will find it hard to be motivated by the work and may be unable to take decisions about something that is outside their sphere of influence. Without trust, influence is almost impossible.”. 2003) Perfect Projects. What happens if the sponsor is too busy? Start establishing trust.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

Scrum.org

According to Wikipedia, feedback control is: Feedback is a process in which information about the past or the present influences the same phenomenon in the present or future. A powerful example of the above can be witnessed in termite colonies (Camazine, 2003). Consider a thermostate. New York: Wiley; Camazine S.,

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

Scrum.org

Recognize how much of your thinking is still subtly influenced by a mechanical perspective in organizations . like network patterning, mood, safety, social contact and social influence?—?than social influence is that much stronger. Change, resistance, and social influence. than on individual traits.

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Managing Risk from Every Level of Your Organization

LiquidPlanner

All project team members must do everything they can to manage uncertainty within their sphere of influence. 2003, September 25). In their 2021 book titled “Risk: A User’s Guide”³, authors Stanley McChrysta, former US Army General and Anna Butrico neatly sum up this common pitfall with the phrase, “ the greatest risk to us is us.