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

Scrum.org

Adoption of different methods and practices in Japan ( "DX White-Paper Executive Summary" Information-Technology Promotion Agency p11 ) Japanese culture Japanese businesses have a strong desire to avoid risk and minimize unexpected events. This is how risk is controlled in an agile environment and it is pretty effective.

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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

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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. reducible and irreducible ?

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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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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

Cognitive bias - a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive processes, often occurring as a result of holding onto one's preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

Cognitive bias - a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive processes, often occurring as a result of holding onto one's preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success.

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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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