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Using Assessments and Standards to Improve Your Process Process improvement is a fundamental endeavor that any successful organization must embrace. The challenge many companies face is how to effectively implement IT process improvement. A good place to begin is with an assessment of current operations; then measure those findings against good criteria. |
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Four Reasons to Stick with Daily Scrum Meetings Every team member is required to attend a daily scrum meeting. Pro tip: The ScrumMaster and product owner are team members too, despite their titles of leadership. If you feel you don’t need to attend every daily scrum, then consider these four reasons why you should stick with it. |
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Why Losses Affect Us More Than Gains and What That Means at Work Loss aversion is the cognitive phenomenon that a loss of a dollar will make you more miserable than a gain of a dollar will make you happy. This causes people to make irrational decisions to ride out potential losses, whether it's sitting through a bad movie or continuing work on a failing project. |
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Calculating the Real Cost of Multitasking on Your Projects The cost of delay due to multitasking is real. It’s invisible to most people, especially management. It’s not just the cost of time lost due to context switching; it’s the fact that projects don't get out on time, which hurts your maximum sales revenue. How do you calculate these costs of delay? |
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The Cost of Delay for Not Shipping on Time The cost of delay is the way to think about the revenue you can lose plus the cost of continued development. When you delay your release and don’t ship on time, you miss the revenue from the maximum sales times. Shipping on time isn't always easy, but it's easy to see why you need to. |
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Why We Should Get Rid of Bonus-Based Pay There are several problems with basing a knowledge worker's pay on a bonus. In a team-based organization, management often doesn't know who did exactly what work; people concentrate on their own objectives rather than working together; and whether some targets are hit depends on too many factors. |
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Cancel or Save a Troubled Project: How to Decide If your project is going nowhere—or if it’s going somewhere, but it's rapidly downhill—sometimes there’s no choice but to scrap it. Of course, that’s easier said than done because the issue of sunk costs often kicks in. How do you assess whether the benefits will still outweigh the investment? |
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Use Timeboxing to Boost Your Efficiency In timeboxing, you predetermine the maximum time allowed to get tasks done. You determine the launch deadline when you start the sprint or iteration, and everyone works toward that date. It can keep your project focused and on track. Is this method for you? Read on for advantages and disadvantages. |
