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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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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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Making Writing a Joy Many people tend to be scared of writing, and that's a shame, because these people are full of ideas and experiences worth writing about. If you want to get past a fear of writing, start with something smaller: a short story, a two-page essay, or a one-page article. Getting started is the hard part. |
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The Cost of Self-Criticism and How to Avoid It If you’re prone to self-criticism, it’s difficult to get anything right and easy to fall victim to negative thoughts about your decisions. It also focuses your attention in unproductive directions, which means you’re even more likely to make mistakes. Read on for how to put an end to self-criticism. |
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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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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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Unblurring Lines: Clarifying the Scope of Your Project Project and subproject boundaries can be challenging because people have different assumptions about exactly where the boundaries are. What, exactly, do your plan and budget include? Items on the boundary should be reviewed with project sponsors and documented as clearly in or out of project scope. |