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Scaling Scrum Across Modern Enterprises

You're reading from   Scaling Scrum Across Modern Enterprises Implement Scrum and Lean-Agile techniques across complex products, portfolios, and programs in large organizations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839216473
Length 618 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cecil 'Gary' Rupp Cecil 'Gary' Rupp
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Preface 1. Section 1: Scaling Lightweight Scrum into a Heavyweight Contender
2. Chapter 1: TheOrigins of Agile and Lightweight Methodologies FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Scrum Beyond Basics 4. Chapter 3: The Scrum Approach 5. Chapter 4: Systems Thinking 6. Chapter 5: Lean Thinking 7. Chapter 6: Lean Practices in Software Development 8. Section 2: Comparative Review of Industry Scaled Agile Approaches
9. Chapter 7: Scrum of Scrums 10. Chapter 8: Scrum@Scale 11. Chapter 9: The Nexus Framework 12. Chapter 10: Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) 13. Chapter 11: Disciplined Agile 14. Chapter 12: Essential Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) 15. Chapter 13: Full Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) 16. Section 3: Implementation Strategies
17. Chapter 14: Contrasting Scrum/Lean-Agile Scaling Approaches 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Ending multitasking/task switching

In case you haven't already figured this out for yourself, multitasking is a bad habit. Almost everyone thinks they are good at it, but no one really is. It turns out we humans are sequential thinkers. The best you might be able to say is that you are quick at context switching, which means you are comfortable with quickly changing your train of thought from one subject to another. Nevertheless, there are delays associated with changing subjects or moving from one task to another.

Scientists who have analyzed the process of multitasking have come to realize what we are really doing is task switching. In other words, we're not very good at doing more than one thing at a time. Instead, we compensate by repeatedly moving from one task to another, and then back again. Worse, multitasking hurts decision-making, makes us less efficient, increases our stress, and makes us less friendly (6 Reasons You're Actually Not Good at Multitasking...

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