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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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Before we begin, we need to define some of the terms we will use throughout this post. Throughout this post, we define them as “all users, customers, and other people or groups who have a clear stake in the outcomes of what this team produces, and invest money, time or both in making sure that happens”. The first term is Stakeholder.

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The Triple Constraints of Project Management

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Project managers who firmly grasp the triple constraints of project management have a higher chance of achieving quality outcomes that are within the defined scope and budget of the project plan. Wikipedia, 2008). Use these ideas when having discussions with clients, your project teams, executives and project sponsors.

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

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There have been some recent posts about managing scope, defining needed Features, determining how to release software to stakeholders - in both traditional and agile processes. This document is all but unknown in the Enterprise IT domain and completely unknown in the agile software development world. Davis, Russell D.

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Key Components of the DevOps Pipeline?

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Concerns were voiced in the IT operations and software development sectors from 2007 to 2008 about the old software development paradigm that split operations from developers regarding how code was distributed and supported. DevOps was formed by combining the concepts of development and operations.

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

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This concern is also present in academic literature, where authors like Mathieu and his colleagues (2008) and Mortensen and Haas (2018) point out that there is a research gap because studies are often based on stable teams, whereas this is often not the case in the modern workplace. What defines fluid and stable teams? Mathieu, J.,

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Risk Management Resources

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Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? 79, 2008. “`,” Stephen Ward and Chris Chapman , International Journal of Project Management , 21, pp. 255, April 2010. 920, November 2004.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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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. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? Kwak and J.