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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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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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Some Product Owners are highly involved with their teams, whereas others consider their work done when the product “is defined”. They are responsible for setting priorities, defining goals, and clarifying which work needs to be done. Judy & Krumin-Beens (2008) offer an interesting perspective on this in a case study.

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Build Awesome: RoR Devs Wanted

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We didn’t really realize it at the time, but we built and launched the company using many of the concepts that Eric Ries later elegantly defined in his 2008 book The Lean Startup. This spirt of gathering customer research, prototyping a minimum viable product, deploying and iterating lives on. So if you fit this bill, we’re hiring !

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

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Cone of Uncertainty Bibliography

Herding Cats

The CoU paradigm defines the needed reduction in uncertainty is some performance metric. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , 57 (4), pp. Application of Real Options Theory to Software Engineering for Strategic Decision making in Software Related Capital Investments," Albert O. Newnes, Linda B.,

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Resources for Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

First, the Cone of Uncertainty is a Principle used to define the needed reduction in the variances of estimates on Programs. Tim Menzies, Steve Williams, Oussama Elrawas, Daniel Baker, Barry Boehm, Jairus Hihn, Karen Lum, and Ray Madachy, Software Process Improvement And Practice, (2009). 37-48, 2007.

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