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

Scrum.org

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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We are Not Alone: The Intersection of Project Management and Content Strategy

The IIL Blog

Align with the Business Need A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge ( PMBOK ), the bible for project managers, states that “projects are initiated due to internal business needs or external influences”. Many software tools are available for recording and tracking requirements. Denver, Colorado, 25 April, 2018.

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7 Secrets for Conveying Confidence as a Project Manager

ProjectManager.com

Influence and persuasion start with confidence. But I do like the reframe that Amy Cuddy offers in her 2012 TED talk , which has garnered of 52 million views, as I write this. Even if some tasks fall behind, you can easily drag and drop the timelines to adjust due dates and reassign workload. I don’t like this.

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The project customer role

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is an edited extract from my book Customer-Centric Project Management , co-authored with Phil Peplow (Routledge, 2012). For example, the Sales Director would sponsor a project to install new customer management software, providing the sales team with more opportunities to cross-sell to the existing customer base.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In every case, you should have people on the group who understand the project (or who can be brought up to speed) and who have influence and interest in the outcomes. Action review and next steps. Set up a meeting with your sponsor to review roles and responsibilities and agree the terms of reference for the group(s).

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

Scrum.org

Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Why our brain is not built for software engineering. So, answering your mail and writing some code at the same time is going to decrease productiveness. Nevertheless, the motto of software development is often ‘first solve the problem, then write the code’.

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

Scrum.org

Edmondson (2012) argues that dynamic teaming is important to share and encourage learning. This is also what inspired Edmondson (2012) in her academic work on “teaming”. They also tend to perform better (Evans & Dion, 2012), are better able to deal with stress and pressure (Salas, Driskell & Hughes, 1996). Bradley et.