Non-technical individual skills are weakly connected to the maturity of agile practices

Surgeons' non-technical skills.

The importance of non-technical skills to surgical performance is gaining wide acceptance. This article discusses the core cognitive and social skills categories thought to underpin medical knowledge and surgical expertise, and describes the rise of non-technical skill models of assessment in surgery. Behavior rating systems such as NOTSS (Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons) have been developed ...

Anaesthetists' non-technical skills.

This review presents the background to the development of the anaesthetists' non-technical skills (ANTS) taxonomy and behaviour rating tool, which is the first non-technical skills framework specifically designed for anaesthetists. We share the experience of the anaesthetists who designed ANTS in relation to applying it in a department of anaesthesia, using it in a simulation centre, and the pr...

The Agile Maturity Model

Agile Practices in Maturity Model for Testing: an Experience Report

Software testing is an important tool for ensuring that software products produced and launched on the market reach the appropriate quality standards. Testing maturity models such as MPT.BR or TMMI, appear in the software scenario as a way to support introducing elements that are essential for developing the discipline of software testing within organizations. Together with this reality, it is ...

The Disciplined Agile Framework: A Pragmatic Approach to Agile Maturity

It is possible to combine Agile and Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI), but few organizations are doing this in practice. There are many challenges to be overcome, not the least of which is the very different mindsets of adherents of each approach. More importantly, we have a better option available to us in the form of the Disciplined Agile (DA) Framework. The DA process decision fram...