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

Scrum.org

The agile manifesto includes principles such as “continuous delivery of valuable software”, “continuous attention to technical excellence” and “at regular intervals the team reflects on how to become more effective”. Following these principles are a greater enabler of agility than following the Scrum framework alone. Sheppard & W.

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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Airbus A380 was due to take to the skies in 2006. The international team did not use compatible design software which led to snowballing problems. The Channel Tunnel construction project saw its budget rise from £4.8 billion to £10.9 Each year the project is overdue costs €1 billion in penalties to their 16 customers.

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Practical Fibonacci: A Beginner's Guide to Relative Sizing

Scrum.org

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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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For more up-to-date software reviews, see my complete list here. In case you’ve only just stumbled across this blog, in 2021 I celebrated 15 years of blogging about project management. I thought it was time to look back and see what the stand-out articles were over the years. Here are the top 15 articles year by year.

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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. Don't hear one?

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

Scrum.org

Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. Similarly, I’ve also experienced one software team where every member was contractually responsible for a different product. J., & Klein, G. Whitworth, E., & Biddle, R.

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Microsoft Project Alternatives for 2020

Binfire

To say the market for project management software is crowded in 2020 is the understatement of the century. By the last count, there are around 120 vendors who sell some type of project management software. SmartSheet- Was established in 2006 to create a task management application that is similar to Microsoft excel. .

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