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

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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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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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Practical Fibonacci: A Beginner's Guide to Relative Sizing

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A traditional or Waterfall software development lifecycle includes a long and detailed planning period to define requirements before beginning development. It’s a different approach than a traditional software lifecycle, but it is necessary. 2006, Jørgensen and Grimstad). O verview of Agile Estimating.

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Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching

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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). There is no blame (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006). The problem is chronic and not a one-off event.

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Agile & Project PPM: The Better Together Story

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There are many who have the misconception that Agile is just for software development. As a Microsoft Project MVP since 2006, it has been an amazing journey for me to watch the Microsoft engineering team move from a Waterfall software development program to an Agile one by fully utilizing Project/Project Server.

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

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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. In summary, the person with a growth mindset believe that new abilities can be developed through practice. .

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