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Decision Making On Software Development Projects

Herding Cats

Decision Making on Software Development Projects Is Both Simple and Complex at the Same Time. Irreducible (Aleatory) uncertainty is natural variability, stochastic, and due to chance. Reducible (Epistemic) uncertainty is subjective, due to lack of knowledge. All projects operate in the presence of uncertainty.

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Next Generation Project Management Software

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The project and portfolio management (PPM) software market is changing. In this article we look at emerging software in the PPM space and discuss how its selection and implementation needs to be done in line with an overarching digital strategy. A tiny snapshot of the analysis that the different software tools went through.

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A Quick Guide to User Story Mapping

ProjectManager.com

He literally wrote the book about it, It’s All in How You Slice It , which came out in 2005. The idea of a user story as it applies here comes from software development and product management. A user story is an informal description of one or more software features, written from the perspective of an end user in plain English.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Chakraborty and K.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

Scrum.org

Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Why our brain is not built for software engineering. Although our brain is a marvel of evolution, it has not evolved to excel at the kind of knowledge work (Davenport, 2005) that we actually do most of the time. waterfalls) are very likely to fail.

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What’s the Scope of a Unit Test?

Leading Agile

” An executable unit test is really a functional check ; not the same thing as testing the software in the true sense. In fact, I’ll go so far as to assert it’s even more valuable to write the unit tests before writing the production code, too. But what if the production code were implemented differently?

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PERT Guide For Project Managers and Productivity Gurus

nTask

However, we decided to dedictate this weak to Project Evaluation and Review Technique. Geo-scientific Software Development Projects- Dishansh 2005. Dishansh 2005 is a software that calculates spatial relations by plotting planer and linear structural features, for seismological and geotechnical interpretations.

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