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Budgeting and Accounting [TOP]

Beyond Budgeting Case Study – Favi

Lean Accounting: Does IT Need a Time Out on Time Tracking?

Your Agile Project Needs a Budget, Not an Estimate

Failure Modes [TOP]

12 Failure Modes in Agile Transformation

12 Failure Modes in Agile Transformation: Congruency

12 Failure Modes in Agile Transformation: Transition

12 Failure Modes in Agile Transformation: Workflow

Rolling Out Agile in a Large Enterprise

Seven Pitfalls to Avoid During Organizational Transformation

Six Common Mistakes That Salesforce.com Didn’t Make

State of Agile Report

General Leadership [TOP]

Agile Talent Management

An operating model for company-wide agile development

Executives and Safety – “Get it done” Individuals

How do you motivate employees? – Summary of Herzberg theory

What is an Agile Leader?

General Leadership Books

The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century - Steve Denning [AMAZON]

Hiring [TOP]

Interview Humiliation

The Problem with Using Personality Tests for Hiring

Metrics and Measurement [TOP]

30+ Metrics for Agile Software Development Teams

Agile Metrics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Agile Teams: Don’t use happiness metrics, measure Team Morale

An Appropriate Use of Metrics

Be careful how often you measure

Bell Curves and Measuring Badly

Beyond the Happy Bubble

Cycle Time and Lead Time

Data driven coaching – Agile 2016

Excel Spreadsheet for Hyperproductive Scrum Teams

Happiness Metric – The Wave of the Future

How Accountants Kill Innovation

If You Can’t Measure It, You’d Better Manage It

Linear Thinking in a Nonlinear World

Measurement for Scrum – What are Appropriate Measures?

Measuring Happiness on the Team: What is Crisp?

Measuring Team Performance

Metrics don’t have to be evil

Metrics for Agile

Patrick Kau – on the Appropriate Use of Metrics

Red, Yellow, Green or RYG/RAG Reports: How They Hide the Truth

Scrumming the Scrum (the use of happiness as a Metric in Retrospectives)

Solving the Hairy Problem of Team Dependencies [PDF warning!]

Team Metrics – Case Study

The Agile Acid Test

The Happiness metric and a few others

The Impact of Lean and Agile Quantified: 2014

Vanity Metrics vs. Actionable Metrics

Why Vanity Metrics are Dangerous: Holding a Mirror Up to Your Measures of Success

Forecasting Tools

Focused Objection – Collection of Forecasting Tools

Forecasting Using Data – Common Questions Answered [PDF warning!]

Metrics and Measurement Books

Software Development Metrics - Dave Nicolette [AMAZON]

Ongoing Organizational Improvement [TOP]

The Gravity of $70K: What Actually Happened at Gravity Payments

Improvement Stories

The Gravity of $70K: What Actually Happened at Gravity Payments

What is Systems Thinking Leadership?

Open Offices [TOP]

6 Psych Tips For Creating The Ideal Workspace

Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace.

Privacy and Communication in an Open-Plan Office A Case Study

The Open-Office Trap

The supposed benefits of open-plan offices do not outweigh the costs

Why The Open Office Makes You Distracted, Exhausted, And Insecure

Workspace satisfaction: The privacy-communication trade-off in open-plan offices

Pay for Performance [TOP]

Bogus Bonuses and C.E.O. Salaries – Dan Ariely

Observations From a Tipless Restaurant, Part 3: How Tipping Promotes Bad Service

Prosocial Bonuses

Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance

The Best Bonus Is One You Can’t Spend on Yourself

Performance Reviews [TOP]

A Quick Rundown on Performance Reviews

Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings

An Alternative to Performance Reviews

Case Study: What Really Happens When Companies Remove Ratings

It’s Time to Kill the Performance Review

Microsoft Drops Stack Ranking

Personal development at Spotify

Quotes from “Get Rid of the Performance Review!”

Stack Ranking and the damage done at Microsoft

The corporate kabuki of performance reviews

The Truth about Performance Reviews and Other Corporate Bullsh*t

What Really Happens When Companies Remove Ratings (Case Study)

Why GE had to kill its annual performance reviews after more than three decades

Why More and More Companies Are Ditching Performance Ratings

Performance Reviews Books

Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead - Tom Coens, Mary Jenkins [AMAZON]

Reporting [TOP]

AgileEVM – Earned Value Management in Scrum Projects [PDF warning!]

AgileEVM: Measuring Cost Efficiency Across the Product Lifecycle

Tours of Agile Companies [TOP]

A Day In The Life At Pivotal Labs

Marc P Summers visit to the Infusionsoft Headquarters 2013

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