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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

Scrum.org

Since I became a Professional Scrum Trainer in November, I have been asked a lot about the current state, and the future perspectives, for Scrum and agile development in Japan, where I’ve worked for the last six years. Yet, Scrum and the principles of agile development are not as common in Japan as they are in other parts of the world.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. Risk Management Papers. “A De Meyer, C. “A

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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Real Options and Decision Making for ICT Projects

Herding Cats

This is the same paradigm of Agile software development where responding to change over following the plan is part of the original manifesto. Instead is providing how Real Options is applied to decision making int he presence of uncertainty for ICT (Information Technology and Communications) here's a reading list.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

Herding Cats

June Verner, Jennifer Sampson, and Narciso Cerpa, Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, 2008. “A Why Do Information Technology Projects Fail?” What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects? Data of Root Cause Analysis at Four Software Companies,” Timo O. Lehtinen and Mika V.

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What is IT Service Management?

The IIL Blog

I expect you’ll join me in recognising that Information Technology has existed for approximately 100 years. Information Technology is a young industry with several even younger career paths, one of which is Information Technology Service Management (ITSM).

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