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

Scrum.org

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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Five Critical Aspects of A 21st-Century Digital Enterprise

The IIL Blog

The model uses the four aspects of innovation to make incremental changes to its existing capabilities, substantial or sustaining changes for more changes that require more than an incremental adjustment, adaptive changes to strategic policies, and disruptive changes to the overall organizational strategy.

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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. The first Kanban system at Microsoft in 2005 produced productivity gains of 230%. The method wars. What have been your observations?

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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. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. “The Elsevier, 2005.

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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. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. “The

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Agile Software Development (#ASD). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams. Parametric Project Monitoring and Control - Earned Value is an approach to Performance measurement for monitoring and controlling the progress of software development projects.