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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”. What’s so bad about scope creep anyway? It takes its toll on team morale.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

When the Department of Defense (DoD) decided to expand the need for more technical projects following World War II, pressure was placed upon the aerospace and defense community to develop expertise in project management. Unfortunately, the same PMs often were quite poor at writing reports. degree in a technical discipline.

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Agile forecasting techniques for the next decade

Scrum.org

They advise us on our driving habits when the road conditions are bad on our commute to work. I believe Agile software development is more than ready to use new forecasting techniques to express uncertainy to narrow their decision-making process. I believe we can use this definition in Agile software development.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. The bad news, it’s hard to master. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile.

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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. 5887, 2009. Risk Management Papers. “A Risk a Feelings,” George F.

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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. 5887, 2009. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ?

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What is Agile Project Management? (and how to implement it)

EasyProjects

Agile Project Management Defined. Agile is flexible and adaptive, relying on constant feedback from stakeholders and teams in order to steer a project towards a desired goal. The one that stands out the most is increased team efficiency based on several factors. Being more effective through team self-organization.

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