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

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

Scrum.org

And does your Sprint Review consist of team members listing their individual accomplishments? Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Psychological review , 57 (5), 271. Information and Software Technology , 48 (4), 235–244. The social nature of agile teams.

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Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching

Scrum.org

Now we live in a world of digital technologies in a global post-industrial society. This paper is geared toward Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and change agents that work with large change initiatives. There is no blame (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006). It is located in the neocortex and developed relatively recently.

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How a growth mindset has helped in my journey to become a PST

Scrum.org

A growth mindset is a term coined by Carol Dweck in 2006 in her book mindset Mindset: The new Psychology of success to describe the underlying beliefs people have about learning and intelligence. I had a great job as an Agile Coach working for a Startup consultancy that was changing the market with a creative way to run Agile transformations.

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What is Agile Project Management? (and how to implement it)

EasyProjects

What is Agile Project Management? . If you follow the instructions to a tee, it’s going to taste fantastic – just like the reviews say. That is precisely what agile project management is – taste testing the stew at various points to ensure that it’s tasting the way it should. Agile Project Management Defined.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods.