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	The Fourth Constraint in Project Delivery—Leadership Slideshow All too often, the triple constraints—time, cost, and quality—are bandied about as if they are the be-all, end-all. While they are important, leadership—the fourth and larger underpinning constraint—influences the first three. Statistics on project success and failure abound, and these...	Rob Burkett
	Balance Discovery and Delivery with Dual-Track Agile Slideshow Do your product teams frequently struggle to have groomed and well-defined stories ready for the developers? Do you find yourselves frequently in “feed the beast” mode to keep your development teams busy? Do your product teams have problems gaining shared understanding across product...	Sean McKeever
	Cultural Intelligence: A Key Skill for Success Slideshow Diversity is becoming the norm in everyday life. However, introducing global delivery models without a proper understanding of intercultural differences can lead to difficulty, frustration, and reduced productivity. Priyanka Sharma and Thena Barry say that in our diverse world, we need...	Priyanka Sharma and Thena Berry
	Individuals, Interactions, and Improvisation Slideshow As agile practitioners, we constantly strive to better ourselves, our team, and our delivery. A great way to achieve this is simply being open to learning new ideas from other disciplines—including improvisation. Jessie Shternshus shares her story of realizing the uncanny similarities...	Jessie Shternshus
	It's All in Your Head: Use Neuroscience to Improve Performance Slideshow We humans process millions of bits of information each day. In order to handle that data load, our brains have developed shortcuts to take advantage of patterns, shared knowledge, and experience. Unfortunately, sometimes those shortcuts lead us astray, causing us to draw inaccurate...	Faye Thompson
	Transform Test Organizations for the New World of DevOps Slideshow With the recent emergence of DevOps across the industry, testing organizations are being challenged to transform themselves significantly within a short period of time to stay meaningful within their organizations. It’s not easy to plan and approach these changes considering the way...	Sumit Kumar
	They Said, We Said: Bridge the Communication Gap with Behavior-Driven Development Slideshow Have you heard that only 36 percent of business features built into software are actually used by end users? And why do we get functionality that fails to work as expected? One of the age-old problems between IT and our clients is that we don’t speak the same language. Sheetal Patel...	Sheetal Patel
	Databases in a Continuous Integration/Delivery Process Slideshow DevOps is transforming software development with many organizations adopting lean development practices, implementing continuous integration (CI), and performing regular continuous deployment (CD) to their production environments. However, the database is largely ignored and often seen as...	Steve Jones
	Keep Engagement High in Difficult Projects Slideshow Aggressive timelines, scope creep, changing requirements, development delays, and the imperative to finish on the imposed timeline … how can you keep your team motivated and engaged when everything seems to go wrong? Larissa Rosochansky describes the major factors of team...	Larissa Rosochansky
	Sustaining Agility—After the Consultants Leave Slideshow Organizations transitioning to agile often hire external consultants to help them become more agile. However, what tends to happen six months after the consultants leave is that the organization is often left with more—and different—problems than they had before. Susan Lin says this...	Susan Lin

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