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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

Each approach establishes the development of project deliverables as influenced by the delivery cadence, defined as the number and timing of deliveries based on the type of deliverable. Understanding the influence of external factors allows modification of the chosen approach to meet external challenges head-on.

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

Many studies have found that psychological safety has a positive influence on team effectiveness (Edmondson, 2014). Analysis of fault generation caused by stress during software development. In Achieving Quality in Software (pp. burnout relationship in software development teams. Edmondson, A.

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

Scrum.org

Initially coined by cognitive psychologist Lee Ross (1977), it happens when people underestimate the influence of the situation on the behavior of others while overestimating the influence of their personal traits and beliefs (Berry, 2015). This bias is also known as the ‘correspondence bias’. Examples in the workplace. Anchoring bias.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

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Making the Move from Business Analyst to Product Owner

International Institute for Learning

Software development is going to adopt Scrum as its operating approach to developing software. Business analysts generally rely on their communication skills: negotiation, mediation, influence, and networking to get things done rather than authority. By Steve P. You get the word: “We are going AGILE!” Communicate.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Integrated Master Plan: The Foundation of Program Success , College of Performance Management, May 21, 2014. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

“Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). The Use of Precision of Software Development Effort Estimates to Communicate Uncertainty,” Magne Jørgensen, Software Quality Days.