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swolpers

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swolpers··on [dead]
Diana Larsen and James Shore: Learn how team advance on their journey to mastery.
swolpers··on How do you gain stakeholder trust?
That has been my suggestion, too; seeing is believing.
swolpers··on How Complex Systems Fail (1998) [pdf]
Thanks for pointing at it!
swolpers··on Agile Failure Patterns in Organizations
I am not ruling out that the overhead of Agile maybe too expensive for some sort of tasks/jobs.

But in before-mentioned cases, accepting more responsibility wasn't considered appropriate by the individuals: Why would you want to do more work under the risk of being blamed?

Command & control structures have a great advantage: Blame goes up…

swolpers··on Agile Failure Patterns in Organizations
Let me explain this text with an example:

A team is working in Scrum mode – all systems GO, everything looks fine – when a deadline is approaching.

To meet this deadline at all costs, management decides to gather a task force including member from various other teams, thus overriding the Scrum process.

swolpers··on Agile Failure Patterns in Organizations
Good one; I amended the original text.
swolpers··on Programmer salary in mainland Europe?
Depending on your skills, a "senior" developer in Berlin would earn around 45 to 60,000 € per year. If you're specializing in Ruby on Rails or Magento, for example, you would be paid higher. Finally, don't forget the additional 20% of social security fees that your employer would have to pay on top of your salary.