process improvement

Using Big Room Planning to Help Plan a Project with Many Teams

Planning is essential to agile, but for larger projects, it can become problematic. When you have multiple teams working on a project, the big room planning technique comes in handy. All planning takes place in a single, large room, so everybody can discuss their teams' needs and identify conflicts.

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Paul Ellarby
What Do You Want This Holiday Season? Three Tips for the Overwhelmed

It’s the holiday season again. As you run around preparing for everyone else, consider what you need. Especially when you are stressed—and the holidays seem to bring out the stress in everyone—take time for yourself. Prioritize, manage tasks, and create action plans, and you can enjoy the season!

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Johanna Rothman
Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste

Times of crisis can be extremely difficult. But crisis management does not have to be all bad. Dealing effectively with crisis can make us stronger and more successful. You can achieve success by recognizing the opportunity inherent in any serious incident. You just have to be open to change.

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Bob Aiello
Jeff 'Cheezy' Morgan Presents The Future of Agile at ADC/BSC East

Jeff Morgan—better known by his nickname, “Cheezy”—gave his keynote “The Future of Agile: Dilution, Calcification, or Evolution?” at the Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2014. He talked about adaptation, why best practices aren't the best, and returning to agile roots.

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Rob Myers Presents The Roots of Agility at ADC/BSC East

Rob Myers, founder of Agile Institute, gave his keynote presentation “The Roots of Agility” at Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2014. He compares an agile team to a grove of aspen trees, all connected by the roots and working together as a single organism. Read on.

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Ken Whitaker Presents Leading Software Teams Today at ADC/BSC East

Ken Whitaker of Leading Software Maniacs gave the first keynote presentation at Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2014. It was titled “From Chaos to Order: Leading Software Teams Today” and covered his five tenets of leadership to restore order to product management.

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Don’t Misinterpret the Absence of Customer Complaints

Beware: The absence of customer complaints doesn’t necessarily mean customers are happy. Complaints are a critical indicator of the state of customer satisfaction, so an increase in the number, type, intensity, or urgency of complaints bears examination—but so does a decrease. Read on to learn why.

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Naomi Karten
The Data Science of Big Data

Big data is a science, and luckily, there are plenty of tips out there to help you become a better data scientist, which can also work to make you and your team become more adept at leveraging big data. Read on for some helpful data science takeaways.

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