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Essays from January 2011

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  1. SWAT Team, a Pattern for Overloaded, Multi-project Organizations

    We all have seen it in our projects. Some teams are overloaded and can’t deliver what we need while others are not so busy and could even tackle more work if there was a need for that. This type of partial overloading is easily understood if we picture the work flow as a network of …

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What if better planning started with a different question?

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