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

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A while ago, I received an interesting scientific article from Gunther Verheyen titled “Getting Things Done: The Science Behind Stress-Free Productivity” (Heylighen & Vidal, 2007). Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Good examples are wikipedia and open-source projects (Heylighen, 2007).

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

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There is also the Dynamic Organic Transformation (DOT) team model for high-performance teams (Courtney, Navarro & O’Hare, 2007) or Kozlowski’s process model for team development (1999). Teams generally develop through a number of stages, although scientific models vary in which stages and in what order. 2007, August).

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

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Initially coined by cognitive psychologist Lee Ross (1977), it happens when people underestimate the influence of the situation on the behavior of others while overestimating the influence of their personal traits and beliefs (Berry, 2015). This bias is also known as the ‘correspondence bias’. Examples in the workplace. Anchoring bias.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

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

Planio

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. If you’re also interested in Agile project management, pair the PMBOK with the PMI’s new Agile Practice Guide or our own Guide on How to Pick the Software Development Process that’s Right For you. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. Published date: 2007.

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The Ultimate Redmine Guide: How to set up and supercharge the best open source project management tool

Planio

There’s a reason startups are obsessed with “community” and influencers tell you to find your “tribe”. Even software. It was developed to help teams collaborate on the tasks, bugs, features, and steps needed to complete a project, visually track their progress, and plan their next steps using Gantt charts. What is Redmine?

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

Herding Cats

This document is all but unknown in the Enterprise IT domain and completely unknown in the agile software development world. This missing document is a root cause of many failures in tradition and agile software development. Thesis, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2007.

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