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Are Most Meetings a Waste of Time? Despite the many articles on holding fewer meetings, there doesn’t seem to be a difference in the number of meetings being held. As many as 85 percent of managers think their companies’ meetings are unproductive. How can you prevent your meetings from being a waste of everyone's time? Read on. |
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Reconsidering User Stories User stories, one of the most common agile techniques, are used by delivery teams to support their iterative planning efforts and are typically used to represent items in a backlog. Until recently there has been a general agreement about the form that user stories should take. |
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Using Product Economics for Feature Prioritization When planning for feature prioritization, it’s crucial for you to take into account product economics. Sameh Zeid writes that product economics helps us to understand if it is financially viable to develop a product, even more so than relying on business value. |
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Self-Organizing Teams and New York's Soda Size Ban Venkatesh Krishnamurthy relates New York's unpopular soda size ban with the conflicts that arise from self-organizing teams. Michael Bloomberg (ScrumMaster) had good intentions to save lives by bringing this change; however, he didn’t get support from the citizens (self-organized team). |
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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. |
