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Slack, Flow, and Continuous Improvement

Leading Agile

Similarly, a team should complete the work item or ticket or story (or whatever they call it) they’re working on before picking up the next one. Many software developers will tell you it takes between 10 and 20 minutes to get back into the zone, depending on the task.

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How to Become an IT Project Manager Without Experience

PM Basics

For sure, the easiest way to become a software project manager is by getting a promotion inside an IT company. So, if you are just starting your career, I strongly recommend getting a job on an IT project in any other capacity like QA, Developer, DevOps, Business Analyst, or a Scrum Master. 10 to 15 people on the project team.

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.”

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How to Become a Software Project Manager (Full Guide)

PM Basics

Below you’ll find a full guide on how to become a software PM. TL;DR: The steps to becoming a software project manager. Develop technical proficiency. Develop your interview skills. That’s an overall approach that will make you a software project manager. You need to develop curiosity in regard to new technologies.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Chakraborty and K.

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 1 – Understanding & Incorporating Agile Project Management

MPUG

And so this is where agile kind of fits in and isn’t just necessarily only for software development. Now it’s not to say that processes and tools are bad or documentation is bad or putting something in writing, but the idea is that there’s an investment that really will be a little bit different.

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