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

Scrum.org

The Bad Apple Effect can deeply sabotage a teams performance and development. Even with talented, capable players, their respective teams often underperformed and struggled to progress in their development. Still, these negative attitudes were affecting the whole team's morale and teamwork.

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Practical Fibonacci: A Beginner's Guide to Relative Sizing

Scrum.org

A traditional or Waterfall software development lifecycle includes a long and detailed planning period to define requirements before beginning development. I have little experience or high time pressure; therefore, the estimate is influenced. But teams still need to estimate their work to forecast releases.

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

Scrum.org

Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Although the concept has many different definitions, a characteristic they share is that members move in and out of a team during its lifetime. The need for fluid teams.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. ' In deciding which feature to develop first, those with the highest economic value are selected. I wrote about these ideas when I started blogging in 2006 as  Risk Profile Graphs.

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Pulse of the Profession 2018: Success in Disruptive Times by Managing Projects Effectively

Inloox

On the other side are the so-called “Underperformers” – organizations with 60% or fewer projects being completed on time, on budget, meeting business intent, and having low benefits realization maturity. Sustainable development, climate change, and renewable energy. Success is greater when teams listen, learn, and are adaptable.

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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. The best books for building better habits (for yourself and your team). Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good habits & Break Bad Ones. Executing: Managing teams and stakeholders and ensuring you hit your deadlines.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Chartering the Team , Chartering empowers team members, both individuals and collectively. Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM).