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Wild West to the Agile Manifesto — Jim Highsmith

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Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! ? Join 300-plus peers and help create the next edition of the Scrum Master Salary Report ! Meet Jim Highsmith Jim has penned numerous books on the subject and was honored with the International Stevens Award 2005.

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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

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I hear the phrase “but not all debt is bad” a lot, usually coupled with “some level of debt is manageable” and, as a software developer, it makes me cringe. The non-linear accumulation of technical debt A good example of this is from the Developer Division (DivDev) at Microsoft in developing a product called Team Foundation Server.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

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The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II , Barry Boehm, et. Don't hear one? Prentice Hall, 2000.

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Agile Project Management for Distributed Teams

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As we have previously discussed that the outsourced software development has increased dramatically in recent years. And since 2005, each year the remote workforce has increased by 10% which makes it 140% in 2019, which is huge. Conduct Daily Scrum Meetings. Scrum Scaling. Burndown Chart.

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Route to Enterprise Scale Agility

Digite

Be it the “software development process” or the “employee onboarding process” or “the procurement process” – agility is rapidly becoming a cornerstone of our digital world. While Scrum is probably most prevalent in IT, Kanban and Lean are significant too. The method wars.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. Kadane, and Anthony O’Hagan, Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics & Data Science, January 5, 2005. Elsevier, 2005. 15 July 2005. 255, April 2010. 920, November 2004.

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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. Elsevier, 2005. 255, April 2010. Kwak and J.