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

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Is it really that important that they are autonomous, able to release frequently, interact closely with stakeholders and spend all that time on continuous improvement? 2001 ) and proactive behavior ( LePine, Erez & Johnson, 2002 ). “So However, the sheer effort involved is so gargantuan that this is close to impossible.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 3, March 2002. 11 November 2002. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Accuracy - how close is the estimate to the actual value? So in the end, if we are to make a decision in the presence of uncertainty, we MUST make estimates to develop a reliable shipping date while producing an accurate and precise estimate of the cost, schedule, and technical performance of the product shipped on that date.

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

Herding Cats

It just closed the loop faster. So here are some books, handbooks, and guides that sit on my shelf that are used pretty much all the time on the Software Intensive System of Systems we work on. Software Engineering Risk Management: Finding your Path Through the Jungle, Version 1.0 , Dale Karolak, IEEE Computer Society, 1998.

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Defensive Programming Grows Up

Leading Agile

People who specialize in testing software will need technical skills more-or-less on par with competent software engineers. In a 2002 piece entitled The Law of Leaky Abstractions , Joel Spolsky observed that abstractions over any implementation can leak details of that implementation. Open/Closed. Authoritative.

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What’s Worse Than Not Automating Your Software Delivery Pipeline?

Leading Agile

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Two closely related conceptual errors appear to be quite common. First, there’s a tool-centric mentality about software-related work. The company wanted to automate their dispatching process.