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The Illusion of Velocity

Scrum.org

Moreover, I point to the advantages gained from leadership engaging directly with teams. The core of “Agile” is that the best products and solutions to customer problems emerge from self-organizing, cross-functional teams. 2015): Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. Collins, T., Snowden, D.

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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. The best books for building better habits (for yourself and your team). Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good habits & Break Bad Ones. Executing: Managing teams and stakeholders and ensuring you hit your deadlines. Gantt Chart. Communication Plan.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. 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. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Chartering the Team , Chartering empowers team members, both individuals and collectively. Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM).

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

– I was the Director of Development. I was running a team in the e-bill space. – But I was building a new team, because we were setting up a new organization. . – But I was building a new team, because we were setting up a new organization. Your team was involved in that. – Okay.

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 1 – Understanding & Incorporating Agile Project Management

MPUG

And so this is where agile kind of fits in and isn’t just necessarily only for software development. Now it’s not to say that processes and tools are bad or documentation is bad or putting something in writing, but the idea is that there’s an investment that really will be a little bit different.

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