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Three Simple Tips to Improve Your Agile Leadership Whether you are new to managing an agile project or just looking to beef up your skill set, there are three simple tips for improving your leadership in agile. By getting back to basics, you can increase your chances for success and help your team grow at the same time. |
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Using Points and Hours for EstimatingSteve Berczuk writes that if you decide that there is some value to estimating, you have to decide which unit to measure with points, hours, or something else. Without estimation of any kind, it's difficult to understand how effective you can deliver. | 
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How to Deal with Poor Performers Poor performance can take many forms, but in general, poor performers consistently don’t deliver the results you expect, make too many mistakes, and require too much time to manage. The key is not to let matters slide. The sooner you determine the causes and offer guidance, the better for everyone. |
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Happy Pi Day! In an effort to call attention to the importance of improving mathematics and science education, Congress made National Pi Day an official US holiday in 2009, and Pi Day is celebrated worldwide on March 14 (3.14). Pamela Rentz highlights the only holiday that honors a number. |
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Business Cards—A Testimony to the Evolution of TechnologyHave printed business cards become a thing of the past? Although the original use of business cards and the information included on them has changed over the past few decades, business cards continue to evolve with the technology industry and seem to be here to stay. | 
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The Internet a Decade from NowThe Internet has come a long way in twenty-five years—from something that most people didn't know much about to something more than half of adults surveyed by Pew Research Center said would now be nearly impossible to give up. Read on for what the Internet might mean to society in ten more years. |
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Why Losses Affect Us More Than Gains and What That Means at WorkLoss aversion is the cognitive phenomenon that a loss of a dollar will make you more miserable than a gain of a dollar will make you happy. This causes people to make irrational decisions to ride out potential losses, whether it's sitting through a bad movie or continuing work on a failing project. |
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Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight Leads to Crowdsourcing Search PartySatellite imaging company DigitalGlobe is posting photos of the sea where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is likely to have gone down and asking for the public’s help to comb through them. Its pictures map thousands of square miles, prompting a crowdsourcing effort to scour the open water for evidence. | 
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