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Inertia Is Bad: How to Generate Momentum in Your Agile Program In a large agile project or program, you know how hard it can be to keep things moving. To prevent inertia from slowing an agile program, there's one simple objective you can assign everyone at the start of an iteration to help the team build momentum. Read on for great advice from Johanna Rothman. |
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Google’s Recruitment Process Will Make You Change the Way You Hire Google, which Fortune magazine ranked number one on its 100 Best Companies to Work For list for 2012, attracts some of the best people in the tech field. And to be sure the people they're hiring will be a good fit, the data giant is ignoring the data and going with some unorthodox methods. |
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What Makes for a Healthy Software Team? Steve Berczuk explains that there is more to maintaining the health of a software team than providing the right technologies and processes. You need to attend to the factors that can transform a group of people into a real team. |
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Should You Measure Agile Adoption Effectiveness? A frequent question when organizations are moving to agile is "What metrics should we use to measure our agile adoption?" What people really should be asking is "Should we measure our agile adoption?" The trick is to figure out what an appropriate measurement is. Kent McDonald examines some methods. |
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Acknowledging Work Effort Can Increase Productivity and Motivation Steve Berczuk writes on the importance of acknowledgement in making people feel good about work. Simply acknowledging someone’s effort can lead to increased engagement and motivation—and result in more productivity. |
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The Value of Uncertainty Steve Berczuk writes that while it can be difficult to express uncertainty, especially in an area where we consider ourselves expert, the teams we work with can benefit when we do. A bit of uncertainty can help you identify whether your solution is the best one. |
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Dealing with Stress at Work Are you among the many who are finding the workplace mighty stressful? While percentages vary from one study to another, it’s clear that an awful lot of people feel stressed at work. Naomi Karten writes how to identify the factors causing stress at work and how to deal with them. |
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Measuring Development Time: Not the Best Way to Spend Your Time Managers and project managers are often obsessed with measuring the time it takes to do a task. Time is useful to consider, but measuring time doesn’t always give us the information we really want or need. It's true that work takes time, but it's more valuable to measure results and value delivered. |
