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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate. Project Governance The framework and guidelines for decision-making, responsibility, and accountability within a project.

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Economics of Software Development

Herding Cats

Macroeconomics is the study of how people make decisions influenced by tax rates, interest rates foreign policy, and trade policy. For example, about which software to buy, which Features in the development backlog should be implemented next, what prices to charge for products and services. This is the foundation for estimates.

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Win at Digital Transformation By Connecting Portfolio Management and Value Stream Management 

Planview

However, many digital transformation initiatives struggle to deliver the expected financial value, with more than half lagging behind original estimates, according to a Gartner survey of CIOs. This greatly influences the plan’s execution and determines to what degree targeted outcomes can be achieved.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate.

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Project Charters: Guide to Writing (With Template)

Wrike

Establish project governance: Project charter templates help to identify key stakeholders and team members involved in the project, e.g., project sponsors, project manager, and team lead, indicating who is responsible for specific tasks and who has the authority to make decisions. This includes personnel, equipment, and funding.

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Two Parallel Processes of Project Success - Both Value and Delivery are Needed

Herding Cats

Software development is a Value Creaton activity, but Value cannot be determined unless we know the cost to produce that value and when that value will be available for use by those who of paid for that Value. For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Microeconomics .

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