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What Makes Scrum Teams Effective? A scientific investigation of 1.200 Scrum teams

Scrum.org

Daniel is a Professor at the University of Aalborg and is specialized in empirical software engineering. I am an organizational psychologist and Scrum practitioner with a love for survey development and statistics. The case studies also provided insights into potential patterns. I then collaborated with Prof.

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

Scrum.org

Yet, Scrum and the principles of agile development are not as common in Japan as they are in other parts of the world. It doesn’t matter whether you look at the available research on the progress of DX (⁶), case studies, the job market, the number of certification holders, public training or conferences; the evidence tells the same story.

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Is the IBM IT Project Manager Certificate worth it?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

However, the Introduction to Agile Development and Scrum course does recommend that you are comfortable using a computer and that you’ve had some involvement in software development or IT project management, perhaps as a team member or stakeholder in development projects. You don’t need any prior experience.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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SCRUM and productivity in software projects: a systematic literature review. In 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) (pp. A survey study of critical success factors in agile software projects. Journal of systems and software , 81 (6), 961–971.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

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There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. case studies, surveys, experiments) and the statistical methods used. So where do you find it? This usually involves the methods they used (e.g.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.