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Why Agile Engineering Practices in Software Development Are Essential to Achieve Agility

Scrum.org

In the Oxford Diary, the word agility is defined as the ability to move quickly and easily. It is therefore understandable that many people relate agility to speed. The term “agility” is often used to describe “a change of direction of speed”. Agility involves the ability to react in unpredictable environments.

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Estimating Agile Projects.Or Not

Leading Answers

There has been a debate raging since 2012 about the use and value of estimates on agile projects. For software projects following an agile approach, the team is often asked to estimate the development effort for stories in the backlog. First, those lazy agilists wanted to stop doing documentation; now they want to stop estimating too!

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Practical Fibonacci: A Beginner's Guide to Relative Sizing

Scrum.org

O verview of Agile Estimating. The anecdote to ambiguity is agility. Agile approaches continue to gain popularity because of the marketplace’s volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. In an Agile approach, the developers only know enough to get started–they don’t know everything needed to complete an item.

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Agile & Project PPM: The Better Together Story

MPUG

Agile PPM & Project. One of the key investment areas was Agile. Even Team Foundation Server (TFS) has grown into the new Azure DevOps (Visual Studio) for developers, proving better alignment for Epics, User Stories, Sprints, Requirements, and connecting source code directly to Agile constructs. Understanding Agile.

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Seven Project Management Influencers to Watch

Project Risk Coach

Elizabeth Harrin is the creator of A Girl’s Guide to Project Management which she started in 2006. His passions are Agile, project management methodologies, and PMOs. Bill Dow is an author, an Adjunct Professor at Bellevue College in Washington State, and a Senior Program Manager (Agile Product Owner) for Microsoft.

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In-Depth: How Coherence And Cohesion Are Critical To Scrum

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. The social nature of agile teams. In Agile 2007 (AGILE 2007) (pp.

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., 2014), and Jugdev et al., There are more options available for correcting project work-related issues. Dawood, Shariffah; Pinto , Mary Beth., May2014, Vol.