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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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Practical Fibonacci: A Beginner's Guide to Relative Sizing

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O verview of Agile Estimating. A traditional or Waterfall software development lifecycle includes a long and detailed planning period to define requirements before beginning development. The anecdote to ambiguity is agility. It’s a different approach than a traditional software lifecycle, but it is necessary.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

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 Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991.

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Is Your Software Development Team a Well-Oiled Machine?

Leading Agile

To call a software development team a well-oiled machine may be taken as a compliment or an insult. Software development isn’t mechanical work, and machines belong in software factories, and nobody likes the idea of a software factory. The post Is Your Software Development Team a Well-Oiled Machine?

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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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Route to Enterprise Scale Agility

Digite

Competitiveness in the age of digital disruption requires businesses to achieve agility at scale – not in select projects and portfolios alone, but across functions, across the business. The approaches to achieving enterprise-wide agility are keenly debated. The method wars. So what works best?

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Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching

Scrum.org

This paper is geared toward Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and change agents that work with large change initiatives. A software development effort is always a system! Small changes can produce big results—but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006).

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