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On Technical Debt And Code Smells: Surprising insights from scientific studies

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Why is code quality so often an issue? Why do software teams?—?despite So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”. Technical Debt and Code Smells.

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Five reasons why Scrum is not helping in getting twice the work done in half the time

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I worked as a product owner for my first product in 2007–08 to manage the insurance lifecycle for a major insurance company in America. They got the idea of increasing the complexity of dependency management and longer lead time due to the handoffs having individual accountability.

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Product-Market Fit: What Is It & Why Is It Important?

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You can thank Marc Andreessen , the American entrepreneur, investor and software engineer, for the hyphenated phrase. The obvious one is the Apple iPhone, a device that wasn’t unique but captured the imagination of customers so effectively that it’s hard to believe it was only introduced in 2007. What is Product-Market Fit?

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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

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Here are some high-profile failed projects: Following an internal review, Multiplex, the Australian development company responsible for the reconstruction of the Wembley Stadium, became aware that costs for the project were escalating to the point that the company would make a loss of £750 million on the project. billion to £10.9

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A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

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Snyder: Founder, fellow and past volunteer executive director, president and chairman of the board, Snyder is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the PMI Education Foundation, Treasurer of the Delaware Valley Chapter and the Editorial Review Board. He was awarded PMI Man of the Year and is an Honorary Life Member.

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How Change Management Fits Into Projects

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Creates a deliverable e.g. a new software system Creates an environment where benefits can be realised e.g. new software is used to improve efficiency. Here is some further reading that you might like: Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers, Anthony Mersino (Amacom, 2007). Project Management Change management.

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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. Why our brain is not built for software engineering.

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