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The Origins of Scrum Might Not Be What You Think They Are (Wisdom from Rafael Sabbagh)

Gunther Verheyen

Having no other plans for that time being, I could completely focus on my work as curator: contacting people, collecting ideas for essays, reviewing potential essays, suggesting potential edits, ordering and categorizing them, reviewing the manuscript and the cover. 20, 2004: pp. 20, 2004: pp. 1986, [link]. (2)

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

Herding Cats

Capabilities-based planning enables the enterprise to identify business and technical needs, allocate resources, and track activities and outcomes. . This document is all but unknown in the Enterprise IT domain and completely unknown in the agile software development world. Davis, RAND National Defense Institute.

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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. 920, November 2004. A Critical Review Of Risk Management Support Tools,” Irem Dikmen, M. De Meyer, C.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. 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.

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What is Taylorism, and why Waterfall is just the tip of the iceberg!

Scrum.org

Reviewer(s): Russell Miller PST. However the technology of the time was unable to automate at that scale, so the only available “machines” were people. This was the birth of the Agile movement with the Scrum Framework (1993), the Agile Manifesto (2001), and later Kanban (2004). Subscribe to A Wee Dram!

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. 61, September 2004. How I Estimate Software Development Projects,” Alvin J.