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The Bad Apple Effect: How Negativity Can Sabotage Teams’ Performance

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This led me to explore any published research on how negativity impacts teams, which is when I came across a 2006 study known as the " Bad Apple effect ". Agile thrives on collaboration, continuous improvement, and its core principles and values. When this focus is missing, frustration sets in.

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Agile Project Management: What is it and Why is it so Important?

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By Chuck Cobb Agile Project Management Agile , Agile Project Management Share 0 Tweet 0 Share 0 Agile Project Management now feels like a part of the landscape of the project profession. It’s 7 years since the PMI introduced Agile into the 6th Edition of its Project Management Body of Knowledge.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

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The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. What Is the Scrum Methodology? Scrum Values. Scrum Roles.

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Seven Project Management Influencers to Watch

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Elizabeth Harrin is the creator of A Girl’s Guide to Project Management which she started in 2006. His passions are Agile, project management methodologies, and PMOs. Bill Dow is an author, an Adjunct Professor at Bellevue College in Washington State, and a Senior Program Manager (Agile Product Owner) for Microsoft.

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Practical Fibonacci: A Beginner's Guide to Relative Sizing

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O verview of Agile Estimating. The anecdote to ambiguity is agility. Agile approaches continue to gain popularity because of the marketplace’s volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. In an Agile approach, the developers only know enough to get started–they don’t know everything needed to complete an item.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

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Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Kozlowski & Ilgen (2006) describe this reciprocity as “process begets structure, which in turn guides process”.

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Why Agile Engineering Practices in Software Development Are Essential to Achieve Agility

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In the Oxford Diary, the word agility is defined as the ability to move quickly and easily. It is therefore understandable that many people relate agility to speed. The term “agility” is often used to describe “a change of direction of speed”. Agility involves the ability to react in unpredictable environments.