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Der unsichtbare Feind der Agilität: So deckst du ihn auf

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Im Daily Scrum berichten die Entwickler, dass sie nicht weiterarbeiten können, da die Datenbankspezialistin nicht auf ihre Anfragen reagiert. Du hast es bestimmt bereits erraten: Abhängigkeiten behindern die Arbeit des Scrum Teams. Dies sind alles Beispiele aus meiner Vergangenheit und sie haben eines gemeinsam.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

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The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Don't hear one?

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

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Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. How that is supposed to happen is nowhere described in the Scrum Guide.

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Process Reduces Agility? Only on De Minimis Projects

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Scrum, Kanban, even eXtreme Programming are used, guided by higher level directives like the National Defense Authorization Act Section 804 which says. VanderLeest GLSEC 2008. "A When managing any project as Risk Managers as Tim Lister suggested, we need to make estimates in the presence of these uncertainties as well.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Deciding how much precision and accuracy is needed for a credible estimate is critical to the success of that decision.

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Risk Management Resources

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requires making estimates) ? 79, 2008. “`,” Stephen Ward and Chris Chapman , International Journal of Project Management , 21, pp. Estimation of Long?Term ius, KSI Transactions on Knowledge Society, Volume 1, Number 3, 2008. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ? reducible and irreducible ? 1994): 707-712.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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requires making estimates) ? 79, 2008. “`,” Stephen Ward and Chris Chapman , International Journal of Project Management , 21, pp. Estimation of Long?Term ius, KSI Transactions on Knowledge Society, Volume 1, Number 3, 2008. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ? reducible and irreducible ? 1994): 707-712.