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Effective Governance: Overcoming Bias and Inertia

Tom Spencer

For example, Google popularized the 20% Rule , under which it has traditionally allowed employees to spend up to 20% of their paid work time on developing personal projects. Organizations can also adopt agile governance practices that allow for iterative decision-making and faster adaptation to the changing business landscape.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

We then enrolled them in online courses teaching necessary job and technical skills, like computer science fundamentals, complex problem solving, group collaboration, agile methodology, effective written communication, and so on. We mentored and supported them over six months, as they completed their courses.

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

The above example of the five teams (see the end of the previous section) demonstrates a typical situation where lateness of one task is not compensated by other tasks that are early. For example, a project estimated at 100 work hours might include a 20-hour time buffer for contingencies like absences or technical issues.