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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower Innovation

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? And in the software world, an A player is worth 10+ C players!

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Calculating the Six Hidden Costs of Waste in Software Development 

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Nothing frustrates software developers more than working hard on something that never ends up providing value. Whether because of changing priorities, miscommunication among teams, or other blockers, the hidden cost of waste can significantly impact productivity and bottom lines.

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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

Some famous examples of this happening include: In India while it was a British Colony, the Colonial Rulers wanted to reduce the number of snakes. One area where Goodhart’s Law gets even more dangerous is in target-based software development, especially Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. That was not its fault.

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How to Improve Team Communication

The Human Factor

When you are in control of a team of employees, you need to make sure that you are always working together to the best of your abilities. Communication is one of the most important parts of team co-operation. Think that your team is not communicating adequately at the moment? Here are some of the ways you can work to improve it.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

What are some real-world examples of design thinking? How can design thinking help with product development? This helps to ensure that the team is working on solving the right problem. Prototype: In this step, the team creates a rough model of the solution to test and evaluate. What is a design sprint?

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Agile vs Waterfall: what are the differences?

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In a project where the waterfall Model is used, each such point represents a different stage of software development, and each stage usually ends before the next stage can begin. There are good and bad things about this approach. Requirements are usually reviewed and approved by the customer before the project can be started.

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The Art of Agile

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Agile development has been around since the 90s, and became popular shortly after the turn of the millennium, when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was formulated and signed by Kent Beck and 16 fellow software developers. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos!

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