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Defining Work As Problems To Solve

Scrum.org

Product development is complex. Many organisations are relatively weak at predictive decision-making in such unpredictable environments. One thing we can do to help all this is better connect the teams building products to their customers. Many organisations believe they know what their customers want.

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Develop Better High Performing Teams

ProjectManager.com

As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. All these efforts require precise judgment to hire just-in-time talent, using data to make strategic project decisions at a portfolio, program and project level and launching new high performing teams.

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Lack of Education is a Root Cause of Poor Agile Performance

Scrum.org

The first paper was a 2012 study on the tensions with remote (off-shoring) teams (Ramesh et al Ambidexterity in Agile Development ISR2012). It confirmed my preconception that regular education struggles to keep up with developments in our field. Even in institutions where they teach (software) development.

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Product Planning Fundamentals: Develop a Product Plan in 6 Steps

ProjectManager.com

Define a High-Level Vision. You have just developed a product that could potentially be monetized and sold to marketing agencies around the world. Once you have your new product idea, the next step is to develop a high-level vision for the product that can be used to pitch it to potential consumers. Bring Your Idea into Focus.

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SDLC – The Software Development Life Cycle

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The software development life cycle (SDLC) is how it’s done in software development. Let’s define it, look at different models and the best way to manage SDLC. What Is the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)? The software development life cycle (SDLC) is a process by which software is developed and deployed.

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Don’t Blame Agile for Bad Agile

Velociteach

We should not blame Agile for bad Agile. Agile teams are empowered and collaborative. They provide the structure and practices to guide the teams. High-performing agile teams are characterized by the following: Psychological Safety. Team members are empowered. We developed our own lightweight practices.

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Cost of Quality (COQ): A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

How COQ does this, especially in project management, is what we’ll define. But we’ll also discuss the cost of good quality vs. the cost of poor quality and show you how to measure COQ. This is done in two ways as illustrated above: controlling good quality against the failure of control, which leads to bad quality.