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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? If I had to pick the most common weakness I’ve observed, it was a lack of availability.

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

Scrum.org

Their paper provides useful insights into why the Scrum Framework might be so effective when it comes to managing complex work. Their article inspired me to apply the same insights to Scrum and to extend it with my own. A powerful example of the above can be witnessed in termite colonies (Camazine, 2003).

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

Scrum.org

Do you start a new Scrum team by explaining the roles, artifacts, and events? Do you rarely consider how to build coalitions and persuade people in power to support your work with Scrum? Are you thinking about the psychological needs of people and how to motivate them to work with Scrum? How can we expand their influence?

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Why is Cognitive Diversity important? How to promote it?

Scrum.org

Your Scrum team has NO innovative idea to solve the customer problems in many Sprints? In recent years and until now, my work associated with supporting and building high-performance innovation teams by applying Scrum. I found that three main factors influence how to make a high-performance team. Cultural intelligence (CQ).

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

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. You can observe implicit coordination in Scrum teams when you look at how work moves across a Scrum board, or on- and of the Sprint Backlog. This is also why the Scrum framework includes the Definition of Done.

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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 like choosing for Scrum?—?they The strong focus on empiricism and measurement would later inspire Kanban and the Scrum Framework.

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Understanding Project Management Complexity.

The IIL Blog

Complexity influences the way we perform project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and control practices. Fortunately, we have techniques today such as Agile, Scrum, and hybrid methodologies which allow for better approaches to managing project complexities during project execution. Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. Dr. Harold D. Kerzner, Ph.D.,