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Applying W. Edwards Deming’s Ideas in Software Development

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming in Today’s IT, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. The business team asks for estimates for software development. Stop using performance appraisal and rewards and incentives to motivate people, especial when you are using methods like agile and lean software development. It is also not uncommon.

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How Operational Excellence Attracts and Retains Talents

Strategy Driven

A study encompassing over 600,000 individuals across various professions revealed that top performers are up to 800% more productive in complex jobs like software development and management. Gallup reported that over 50% of employees surveyed in 2015 were not engaged, and 17.2% were actively disengaged.

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Leading with Trust

Great Leadership By Dan

Zak, PhD : One-third of business leaders surveyed in 2015 said that retaining colleagues is their number one concern. Employers underestimate the importance of personal and career development on employee retention, vastly overestimating the importance of salary and benefits. Guest post by Paul J. Everyone knows that people are mobile.

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Is The Golden Era Of Tech Clusters On The Wane?

The Horizons Tracker

They found a considerable spike in software-related patents in recent years, as whereas they accounted for just 2.5% of patents in the 1970s, this had mushroomed to 50% by 2015. And [software has] only continued to rise up.”. Such rights require the patent to have at least one US inventor. Peak clusters?

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20 Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Blog in 2015

Curious Cat

Life Balance (2015). No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Visual Management and Mistake-Proofing for Prescription Pills (2015). What to Do To Create a Continual Improvement Culture (2015). All Data is Wrong, Some is Useful (2015). Building a Great Software Development Team (2014).

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Our 10 Most Popular Posts in 2015

Deming Institute

The most popular post on our blog this year: Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015). What’s Deming Got to Do With Agile Software Development and Kanban (2013). A Bad System Will Beat a Good Person Every Time (2015). Weekly page views for the Deming Institute blog from December 2013 to December 2015.

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119: Goals Gone Wild: The New Performance Management | with Kris Duggan of BetterWorks

Engaging Leader

Highlights from the Guide to Performance Management Software 2015, published by Bersin by Deloitte experts: Goal-setting and revising, managing and coaching, development planning, and rewarding and recognizing are the ongoing activities that comprise effective performance management. Website: BetterWorks. Twitter: @kduggan.

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