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A Scrum Master Is Not A Project Manager By Another Name
The ScrumMaster supports the product owner
The ScrumMaster is there to help, coach, provide a consultancy role, and look at the project from all angles. The project remains the responsibility of the product owner, and it's up to him or her to make the final decisions. However, the product owner can look to the…
Protecting the team from business noise
There is often a lot of noise from within the business, and it's down to the product owner and the ScrumMaster to protect the team from that noise. Changes in what is being developed should be communicated via the product owner and nobody else.
Academic Publishing: Free-for-all | The Economist
Open-access publishers judge accuracy, not significance
Open-access publishers are also looking at new ways of doing business. Frontiers, for example, does not try to judge a paper's significance during peer review, only its accuracy—an approach also adopted by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-commercial organisation…
Complete Beginner's Guide To Information Architecture - Ux Booth | Ux Booth
What an information architect does
An information architect will generally do the following activities as part of a project team: . Research the audience and the Business IAs take on a myriad of responsibilities for the project. To learn about the project’s audiences, IAs should have access to the results of, or…
Fragility Of Free — The Brooks Review
The fragility of free
The fragility of free is a catchy term that describes what happens when the free money runs out. Or — perhaps more accurately — when the investors/founders/venture capitalists run out of cash, or patience, or both. Because at some point Twitter and all other companies have to…
Have You Been Watching ... Orange Is The New Black? | Television & Radio | Theguardian.com
Piper Chapman, the clueless WASP
Series creator Jenji Kohan (who previously made Weeds, another dark comedy-drama with a non-law-abiding lead) mines Chapman's white middle classness for rich comedy; her mother has told friends she is "doing volunteer work in Africa" for the next year. She is the classic…
Japanese Idioms by Flashcards
Tsuru no hitokoe
Tsuru no hitokoe The person higher up has the latest decision
Pareto Principle - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Pareto principle
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.[1][2] Business-management consultant Joseph M. Juran suggested the principle…
Re: Blink
Who blinks first
..meaning derives from a kids game in a staring contest - whoever blinks first loses. in an adult context, it sometimes refers to a hi-tension stand-off between fierce rivals - can be applied to business or war.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Short-term profits from cutting costs
For about a month, with costs down and revenues constant, profits zoomed.
A manager's complaint about bad staff
“Are you kidding? You can’t find good people these days. There’s too much turnover, absenteeism, moonlighting. People just don’t care anymore.”
Solution selling
then to develop an effective presentation showing how their abilities can help solve the organization’s problem. It’s called “solution selling,” and is a key paradigm in business success.
Leadership in a changing environment
Such changes as deregulation of the airline industry, skyrocketing costs of health care, and the greater quality and quantity of imported cars impact the environment in significant ways. If industries do not monitor the environment, including their own work teams, and exercise…
IBM's three changeless values
I am always intrigued whenever I go to IBM and watch the training process there. Time and time again, I see the leadership of the organization come into a group and say that IBM stands for three things: the dignity of the individual, excellence, and service. These things…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
The Psychedelic Resource List
The fastest-selling publication on the bookstall was the fourth edition of Jon Hanna’s Psychedelic Resource List, a compendium of websites, organizations, and mail-order businesses dealing in organic and synthetic drugs. The variety of items for sale was mind-boggling. Live…
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
Why good plans fail startups
Why are startups failing so badly everywhere we look? The first problem is the allure of a good plan, a solid strategy, and thorough market research. In earlier eras, these things were indicators of likely success. The overwhelming temptation is to apply them to startups too…
Vision, strategy and product
Startups also have a true north, a destination in mind: creating a thriving and world-changing business. I call that a startup’s vision. To achieve that vision, startups employ a strategy, which includes a business model, a product road map, a point of view about partners and…
Many kinds of innovation
It’s also important that the word innovation be understood broadly. Startups use many kinds of innovation: novel scientific discoveries, repurposing an existing technology for a new use, devising a new business model that unlocks value that was hidden, or simply bringing a…
Groupon started as something else
Groupon is one of the fastest-growing companies of all time. Its name comes from “group coupons,” an ingenious idea that has spawned an entire industry of social commerce imitators. However, it didn’t start out successful. When customers took Groupon up on its first deal, a…