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

Scrum.org

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. Why our brain is not built for software engineering.

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

Scrum.org

Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. However, several studies show that cohesion positively impacts performance only in later stages of team development (e.g. Bradley et. Or if these processes can be fast-tracked.

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Next Generation Project Management Software

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The project and portfolio management (PPM) software market is changing. In this article we look at emerging software in the PPM space and discuss how its selection and implementation needs to be done in line with an overarching digital strategy. A tiny snapshot of the analysis that the different software tools went through.

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Kanban to manage Complex/ Quick Moving Situations

Digite

In my over 25+ years in the software industry, this has been an all too familiar situation! I have often wondered – doesn’t speak too well of us as software professionals! Far too many projects and teams are occupied by far too many crises all through the development/ implementation lifecycle.

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Assume a Spherical Cow

Leading Agile

In 2012, I wrote a blog post entitled “Delivering provably-correct code.” ” In it, I suggested several approaches developers could use to gain high confidence that their code would be suitable for release. When I took an interest in this loop, I quickly ran afoul of academics. Steadfastly Missing the Point.

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How a growth mindset has helped in my journey to become a PST

Scrum.org

When I started using Scrum as a software developer back in 2007 I noticed that this new ways of working really worked, then I decided to learn more about and I became a Scrum Master in 2012 and in 2015 I started to teach Scrum, overcoming my fear of public speaking. I will explain the peer review at the end of this article.

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Raise No More Devils: Improving Organizational Capacity

Leading Agile

The title is based on a quote from the 2007 movie, Ghost Rider. Connection with Software Development. Software development teams often find themselves tangled up with more work than they can handle gracefully, if at all. The two fight briefly. cutting corners only results in the illusion of speed.