Changing the working world, one day at a time. In these times of a competitive employment market, companies are looking at how keep and nurture the best, and 'time' itself, could be the best currency.
In 1960, Douglas MacGregor, a student of Abraham Maslow, introduced the management concept of Theory X and Theory Y (Rice University, N.D.). They are essentially different approaches to management.…
Machine Learning, AI Driving DevOps Evolution - DevOps.com
Automation is the fuel that drives DevOps. Automating routine, repeatable tasks is one of the defining characteristics of DevOps culture. As artificial
Make improvement stories a key part of your Scrum | LinkedIn
Many companies are using Scrum, however some struggle with achieving really effective teams. When teams feel the pressure from the business and Product Owner, look at all the work they have to do, and how much time they have to do it, working on improvements seems unimportant.
Measuring Success at Capital One – The Goat Farm – S1E13
We all think DevOps is a better way to work, but how can you begin to measure aspects of your DevOps transformation. In this episode we talk to Adam Auerbach and Topo Pal of Capital One, and learn …
Ministererklæringen Digital North 2.0 | Nordisk Samarbejde
Denne erklæring, udarbejdet af det danske formandskab for Nordisk Ministerråd i 2020, er baseret på de nordisk-baltiske landes fælles prioriteringer og bygger på den tidligere ministererklæring, Digital North 2017-2020, de nordiske statsministres 5G-hensigtserklæring, den nordisk-baltiske AI-erklæring og visionen for Nordisk Ministerråd, vores Vision 2030.
There is an enormous amount of confusion and misinformation about Kanban. This article will clear up some of the major misconceptions that surround this topic. Let's go through them one by one. You have to choose between Kanban and Scrum The most common misconception I’ve found is that people think you have to choose between
Psychologists who study cognition when people try to perform more than one task at a time have found that the mind and brain were not designed for heavy-duty multitasking.
Few things in Scrum are as misunderstood and misinterpreted as much as a Scrum Team’s need for self-management. At the highest level, it’s not a very difficult concept, but the nuances tend to throw things into question. Simply said: the team needs the autonomy to get its work done. However, the phrase “self-management” has led some to believe that Scrum is anti-management or anti-manager. This is simply not true. In fact, there are several myths that we’d like to debunk:
In the past, the Scrum Guide consistently used the word "priority" for the Product Backlog or noted that the Product Backlog was “prioritized.” While the Product Backlog must be ordered, ordering by priority is only one many techniques — and rarely the best one at that.
“Since 2005, we've worked with clients to apply the LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) framework for scaling Scrum, lean and agile development to big product gro...
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The planning fallacy is a phenomenon in which predictions about how much time will be needed to complete a future task display an optimism bias and underestimate the time needed. This phenomenon sometimes occurs regardless of the individual's knowledge that past tasks of a similar nature have taken longer to complete than generally planned. The bias affects predictions only about one's own tasks. On the other hand, when outside observers predict task completion times, they tend to exhibit a pessimistic bias, overestimating the time needed. The planning fallacy involves estimates of task completion times more optimistic than those encountered in similar projects in the past.
Innovation comes from the producer, not the customer. —W. Edwards Deming, Paraphrased from Out of the Crisis [1] Portfolio Backlog Details Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) is responsible for developing, maintaining, and prioritizing the Portfolio backlog. They actively collaborate with stakeholders, including Business Owners (many of whom are part of LPM), Product and Solution Management, Epic Owners, Enterprise Architects, and others, to discover the epics needed to advance the portfolio’s solutions. Portfolio Epics are large (and typically cross-cutting initiatives) managed through theRead more
Do you know what psychological safety is not? First, let's get on the same page about what it is: In their book, "Personal and Organizational Change Through…