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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

During a company integration program, customer service levels dropped by 25-50% because the team management focused their efforts on reorganizing and changing employees’ roles and responsibilities, all with “the best of intentions”. For example, in June 2010 Chrysler merged with Fiat. So why do some projects crash to their doom?

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

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. 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”.

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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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How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

Scrum.org

From 2010 to 2017, I worked several years in three Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Participation is free.). Fallacy #5: Scale Like Spotify. “I

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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow Blog

Due to poor project performance, $99 million is wasted for every $1 billion invested. To improve their project management practices, C-levels at HHI developed a sustainable management policy. Management at HHI has developed an improvement plan with quality and technology as their top priorities.

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PMI Are some more equal than others?

The Lazy Project Manager

It also seems that there is a preference to have talks with broad appeal, this, I feel, has led to a reduced number of more technical talks on advanced topics. The ones I attend are the ones with good speakers… IPMA in particular has a very poor choice of speaker. So what is my concern and why am I mentioning PMI?

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How Wrike’s Engineers Developed a Unique Quality Control System

Wrike

I joined the team as a QAA engineer in 2010, the first employee in this role. Over the past 12 or so years, we have built a super team of brilliant QAA engineers. The team made a complete audit of everything that could be checked and improved by at least 1%. But he was wrong — Team Sky won in just three.