Linda Rising
With a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the field of object-based design metrics, Linda Rising’s background includes university teaching and industry work in telecommunications, avionics, and tactical weapons systems.
Talks I've Given
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Who do You Trust? Beware of Your Brain
Featuring Linda Rising
Cognitive scientists tell us that we are more productive and happier when our behavior matches our brain’s hardwiring—when what we do and why we do it matches the way we have evolved to survive over tens of thousands of years. One problematic behavior humans have is that we are hardwired to...
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Who do You Trust? Beware of Your Brain
Featuring Linda Rising
Cognitive scientists tell us that we are more productive and happier when our behavior matches our brain’s hardwiring—when what we do and why we do it matches the way we have evolved to survive over tens of thousands of years. One problematic behavior humans have is that we are hardwired to...
people-&-process -
Who do You Trust? Beware of Your Brain
Featuring Linda Rising
Cognitive scientists tell us that we are more productive and happier when our behavior matches our brain’s hardwiring—when what we do and why we do it matches the way we have evolved to survive over tens of thousands of years. One problematic behavior humans have is that we are hardwired to...
people-&-process -
Who do You Trust? Beware of Your Brain
Featuring Linda Rising
Cognitive scientists tell us that we are more productive and happier when our behavior matches our brain’s hardwiring—when what we do and why we do it matches the way we have evolved to survive over tens of thousands of years. One problematic behavior humans have is that we are hardwired to...
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YOW!Tube with Aino Corry
Featuring Linda Rising and Aino Vonge Corry
We’re turning the tables in this YOW!Tube episode and Linda Rising is in the interviewer’s chair to chat with Aino about her book “Retrospectives Antipatterns”.
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Agile: Placebo or Real Solution?
Featuring Linda Rising
The power of the placebo is based on our brain’s belief system. Because we believe the medication can work it does. I wonder if there is some of that placebo effect in our successes with agile? Could it be that all the results are really a matter of proper expectation?
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Deception and Estimation: How We Fool Ourselves
Featuring Linda Rising
As humans, we are hardwired for deception — to be overly optimistic about outcomes. In this talk, Linda Rising demonstrates how hard it is for us to see our poor estimating skills and offers practical advice on living and working with the self-deception that is hardwired in all of us.
agile estimation planning scrum kanban -
Who do You Trust? Beware of Your Brain
Featuring Linda Rising
Our brains' hard-wired “trust evaluation” can get in the way of working well with others. In this talk, Linda Rising helps you gain a better understanding of the “trust evaluation” mechanism in your behaviour and what agile processes can do to help.
agile scrum