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Agile project management: A beginner's guide

Moira Alexander

Although Incremental software development methods go as far back as 1957, agile was first discussed in depth in the 1970s by William Royce who published a paper on the development of large software systems. Changing environments are embraced at any stage of the process to provide the customer with a competitive advantage.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

In 2001, a group of software thought-leaders got together and hammered out the Agile Manifesto. The latter, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) came from the Rapid Application Development movement. In the process of this development, Agilists hijacked a few techniques and presented them as their own.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.