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Do you have a CRACK PO? (and a book review)

Kiron Bondale

In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. Development team members are also valuable, but talent across most skill areas is available for the right price and with the right culture in place. So if you are lucky enough to have an effective PO, retain them at all costs.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Project Success Assessment - A checklist for assessing the processes for project success.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were on of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . I suspect the latter. .

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Almost impossible?

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Is this normal?

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 3 – Best Practices & Real World Use of Agile with MS Project / Project PPM

MPUG

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. We’re going to take a quick review of Agile options and approaches. I can kind of plan and estimate. So there’s actually a rich information out there.

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