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A Scrum Master Is Not A Project Manager By Another Name

Two roles that shouldn't be confused

Contrary to popular belief, the ScrumMaster and project manager roles are highly different and shouldn't be confused. As more companies migrate their project management to Agile, many do so without a proper understanding of what they're aiming for.

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About Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies

An ontology is a richer thesaurus

An ontology, like a thesaurus, is a kind of taxonomy with structure and specific types of relationships between terms. In an ontology the types of relationships are greater in number and more specific in their function. Relationships could include, for example, located in to…

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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)

Per lavorare ad alto livello occorre crederci

Per lavorare ad alto livello occorre crederci. È impossibile aderire alle sorti dell’azienda, essere pronti a farsi sparare per proteggerla (come avrei fatto io, senza neppure pensarci un attimo) senza credere nella sua missione, nel suo ruolo, nel fatto che la sua intrapresa…

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Il crollo di Lehman Brothers

Mentre scrivevo questo libro, Lehman Brothers chiudeva. Per caso ero a New York proprio quel giorno. Ho assistito alla drammatica scena dei dipendenti che lasciavano l’edificio in lacrime con gli scatoloni in mano. È stato deprimente, anche se da un lato ho esultato, lo…

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Le aziende dovrebbero farci pagare la compagnia

La dote del lavoro di favorire la nostra distrazione dal sentimento applicato della solitudine è essenziale per l’uomo contemporaneo, perché annulla questi tempi morti. Vorrei dire che questo è uno dei tentacoli più forti e sviluppati del mostro. Se le aziende fossero quick and…

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Dopo il licenziamento, il demansionamento

Il problema di essere mandati via da un’azienda è spinoso. A trent’anni non è grave, si è giovani, si può trovare un’altra occupazione con relativa facilità. Le aziende pagano un’indennità, minimo diciotto mesi di stipendio. Ma il problema non è quello. Quando non si ha un…

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L'impresa si finge soggetto etico

L’impresa disattende spesso il suo ruolo, propugna valori per coprire problemi sindacali, coinvolge per manipolare. Soprattutto, ed è la cosa più irritante per gli uomini e le donne intelligenti, l’impresa si presenta spesso come un soggetto etico, portatore di valori…

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Bitcoin: What You Need To Know | Technology | Theguardian.com

Bitcoin, a currency no company controls

Bitcoins are an anonymous, decentralised, peer-to-peer digital currency.In contrast to older forms of electronic money, no company controls Bitcoin, nor ever could: all the rules about how it works are embedded into the very operation of trade, including the rate of inflation…

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Death March (project Management) - Wikipedia

It didn't have to be this way (death march)

Often, the discomfort is heightened by the knowledge that "it didn't have to be this way"; that is, that if the company wanted to achieve the goal of the project, it could have done so in a successful way had it been managed competently (such as by devoting the obviously…

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Esl Podcast 752 – Working With Unreliable People

To be a flake

Jackie: You must have had the patience of a saint! If he’s such a flake, why is he still working for this company?

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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…

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Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)

Il dipendente fedele come un samurai

Residui di questa mentalità del passato permangono nell’attaccamento dell’impiegato alla ditta, che rammenta quello del samurai verso il padrone. Un operaio frequenterà i colleghi del suo reparto e, solo occasionalmente, gli altri. Sospetto sembra il comportamento amichevole o…

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L'azienda come seconda identità

Non si valuta tanto, o non solo, lo stipendio o il salario, quanto piuttosto l’appartenenza a una certa azienda, un riconoscimento sociale in termini di reputazione. Si tende ad attribuire un’anima e alti ideali alla ideologia della compagnia: la ditta non è soltanto una…

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Records Management Taxonomy - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Records management taxonomy

Records management taxonomy is the classification of data within an organization identifying what data is being generated by each department and where the data is stored. For instance, one department may create sales invoices in a Microsoft Word format. The marketing department…

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Technology Radar July 2014 | Thoughtworks

Conway's law

Conway's Law, that states that "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations", keeps appearing in unexpected places. One of the key tenets of the Agile Manifesto is "People over…

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The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)

Sustaining versus disruptive innovation

Usually, companies like Intuit fall into the trap described in Clayton Christensten’s The Innovator’s Dilemma: they are very good at creating incremental improvements to existing products and serving existing customers, which Christensen called sustaining innovation, but…

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Innovation can be managed

One remarkable part of the SnapTax story is what the team leaders said when I asked them to account for their unlikely success. Did they hire superstar entrepreneurs from outside the company? No, they assembled a team from within Intuit. Did they face constant meddling from…

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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…

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