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Estimating Agile Projects.Or Not

Leading Answers

Then I discovered this is closely aligned with what the more reasonable NoEstimates advocates suggest doing anyway. For software projects following an agile approach, the team is often asked to estimate the development effort for stories in the backlog. Some software is knowable and can be estimated reliably.

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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For more up-to-date software reviews, see my complete list here. The essential docs article topped the list again this year, closely followed by the resource library pages. In case you’ve only just stumbled across this blog, in 2021 I celebrated 15 years of blogging about project management. It’s free.

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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? Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. Closing words. Psychological review , 57 (5), 271.

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Agile & Project PPM: The Better Together Story

MPUG

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. There are many who have the misconception that Agile is just for software development.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

Scrum.org

To prevail in today’s game of an accelerated innovation-based competition—software is eating the world—, every organization needs to acquire a holistic understanding of an agile product creation process: A vision leads to a strategy that (probably) results in a portfolio of products (and services). Then we don’t have those questions anymore.”

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is a simple project management framework that facilitates team collaboration on complex product and software development projects.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. Pich, Working Paper, 21/2006, Cambridge University, Judge Business School. “A De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.