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Six Impossible Things before Breakfast
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Recently we’ve been seeing a lot of things that just don’t happen in real life. A managing director at Bank of America abandons decades of organizational “best practices” and recreates his organization by letting people organize their own teams. And, if that weren’t unusual enough, the...
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Dan North, Dan North & Associates, Ltd. & Kyle Thomson, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
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I Thought YOU Were Flying the Plane: Preventing Projects from Falling Out of the Sky
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One of the most cherished concepts of the Agile Manifesto is valuing individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Within this idea is the implicit assumption that individuals innately know how to interact. Dramatic lessons from aviation suggest otherwise. During the mid-1960s the...
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Steve Adolph, WSA Consulting
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PMO 2.0: Rebooting the IT Project Management Office More companies are adopting project management offices, and with that additional oversight and structure, their impact can often miss the mark. Tony explains that a "kick in the pants" might be necessary for a PMO to get staff buy-in that delivers successful project results.
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How Can I Develop the Ability to Collaborate? In this installment of FAQ, SQE Trainer Bob Payne and consultant Ryan Olivett answer one of the questions students ask them most often.
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Achieving a Project's Benefits and Goals: How Change Management Can Help Studies have shown that leading organizations frequently have less than successful results when incorporating significant changes. Kris presents useful advice dealing with staff, communication, and what to do for the long term after the change takes place.
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Moving Beyond the Backlog: The Four Quadrants of Product Ownership What do you consider the role of product owner in an agile development project to be? Bob presents a compelling perspective that a product owner has four distinct critical roles that can prove impactful to a team's success.
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Requirements Reuse: Fantasy or Feasible? Software development teams think nothing about reusing code, but what about requirements? The benefits include faster delivery, lower development costs, consistency across and within applications, fewer defects, and reduced rework.
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Working Testing Tasks into the Product Backlog If you've worked on an agile project, delivering to production on a regular basis, then you've struggled with the challenge of fitting in all the big tasks—performance, security, usability, and compatibility testing. To make matters worse, over time it becomes more and more challenging...
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Michael Kelly, DeveloperTown
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Mowing the Lawn: An Application of Agility Anthony Akins explains how he used agile methods to modify the way he mowed his lawn. Learn how any project can benefit from using an agile approach and how large projects can be broken down into smaller chunks, each complete and with value.
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Manage Your Personal Project Portfolio One Step at a Time Can you take the best practices of agile and apply them to your personal life? You bet you can. Johanna Rothman writes on how she manages her personal project portfolio the same way she advise other people to manage their work project portfolios.
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