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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. Change control or change management is the process of managing unplanned but desired influences on the project. Example of scope creep in software development. What causes scope creep? Larson, R. &

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

It has been linked to higher performance and motivation (Mathieu et al, 2000), increased effectiveness (Kearny, Gebert & Voelpel, 2009), and generally explains a substantial amount of the variance (~19%) in the effectiveness of teams (De Church & Mesmer-Magnus, 2010). Analysis of fault generation caused by stress during software development.

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

Herding Cats

This document is all but unknown in the Enterprise IT domain and completely unknown in the agile software development world. This missing document is a root cause of many failures in tradition and agile software development.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Deliverables Based Planning: Providing Actional Information to the Program Manager , 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium, 2009. Increasing the Probability of Success , Dallas MPUG, May 6th, 2009. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008. Agile Project Management.

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Fallacy of the Day

Herding Cats

The use of estimating in software development project mandates those estimates be updated with actual performance data to have any credibility in the construction of the Estimate to Complete and Estimate at Completion. Software projects are not Macroeconomics systems, they are microeconomics systems. The Fallacy.

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Acting Like an Adult in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

There are two kinds of uncertainty on all projects, no matter the domain, including software development projects. The alternatives can involve a large number of uncertainties about the factors that influence the ultimate outcomes. The Notion of Enterprise Software Development. Related articles. Quote of the Day.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

5887, 2009. Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. Project Risk Management: Lessons Learned from Software Development Environment,” Y. 532, August 2009. Risk a Feelings,” George F. Loewenstein, Elke U.