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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk in addition to the usual features associated with delivering value.

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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. For this purpose it defines three roles, a scrum master, a product owner and a development team, made up of several team members.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

Team cognition is similar in the sense that the entire team can be thought of as a body, where each member (the limbs) has to learn how to coordinate their work effectively to move forward. This shared understanding is captured in the “team mental models” that drive team cognition. It takes time to develop teams.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Risk Management (#RM). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Table of Contents (Click the Name to go to Section).

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The Best Jira Alternatives for Project Management

Wrike

If you’ve ever been part of a software development team, you’ve probably heard of Jira. There’s a reason why it’s often awarded the number one place by project management software reviewers. It even supports Agile teams with sprint management, pre-built templates, and more. Try Wrike for free What is Jira?

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

If we take Tim Lister's advice about managing risk while spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty, where is the adult supervision here? . . They don't care about cost, risk, schedule, the probability that they'll get what they paid you for. 2] " Wronger than Wrong ," Scientific American, November 2006. [3]

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

If you're not an expert, you're not going to recognize the possible solutions, risks, impediments, and opportunities for the problems you'll encounter in developing a solution that has never been developed before. For software development starts with. 2] " Wronger than Wrong ," Scientific American, November 2006. [3]