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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

Google Sheets live in the cloud and therefore are collaborative documents, unlike the static documents of an Excel spreadsheet. What Is Kanban Software? While a Google Sheets kanban board document has advantages over an Excel one, neither is suited for a system that aims to reduce waste and increase efficiency.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

“Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. 9, Issue 3, No.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

Herding Cats

Root Cause Analysis is a systematic documented approach to arrive at the true Root Cause of the process problem. Automated Root Cause Isolation of Performance Regressions during Software Development,” Christopher Heger, Jens Happer, and Roozbeh Farahbod, ICPE ’13, April 21?24, What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects?

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Limits of a Self-Organizing Team

Leading Agile

” It’s noteworthy that there is no definition of “best,” nor of “self-organizing teams,” in the document. I can imagine some software engineers taking umbrage at that comment. In 2013 I described a conference session Pelrine facilitated in which we explored this concept in 2009.

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