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

Scrum.org

For sustainability, robustness, quality, customer service, fitness for purpose and true agility in software development teams, it is important for there to be continuous investment in agile engineering practices. [1] Sheppard & W.

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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 part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. What Is the Scrum Methodology?

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

EasyProjects

If you follow the instructions to a tee, it’s going to taste fantastic – just like the reviews say. For instance, in 2006, Salesforce.com went all-out with change across the whole organization from the start and successfully completed a transformation from traditional management to Agile management in just three months.

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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

Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).

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The Best Jira Alternatives for Project Management

Wrike

While Jira has its strengths — particularly for software developers — it may not provide the full range of features, integrations, and automation a modern organization requires. If you’ve ever been part of a software development team, you’ve probably heard of Jira. But the key here is choosing carefully.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. For software development starts with. maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help. Almost impossible?