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From "Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense" by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton, Page 78 Employee loyalty, engagement, and commitment are important benefits, but not the whole story. In a typical organization, people charged with
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One of the interesting lessons in working with Mingle is figuring out how to measure velocity and track burndown . I'm on the track, but haven't quite figured it out yet. While working in Mingle, Scott Bellware came and looked at what I was doing. "What
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"I think this has been our most successful iteration on this project to date." While I'd love to claim ALL the responsibility, what I do claim is leading and teaching my team. Leading them in becoming more effective in the process that they have chosen
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Interesting self-referential experience regarding Mingle. The version I'm using has "expired". Since guys on my team installed it in the first place, I asked them to install the latest (release, five free users). What response would you expect? "I think
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Since Bret Pettichord has a connection to ThoughtWorks , we got an early look at their new agile project management tool , Mingle . Being a lover of tools that (hopefully) make my life easier and/or provide greater richness in my environment, I leapt
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More insights from Jim Highsmith in the book Agile Project Management What does a business executive want from a product development and project management process? She wants three key things. First of all, she wants the process to be reliable -- to produce
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I'm currently reading Agile Project Management by Jim Highsmith. Lean Thinking Many of the ideas of the agile movement first arose within lean manufacturing, which began in the automotive industry in Japan in the 1980s. One of the fundamental tenets of
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