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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. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. What Is the Scrum Methodology? Scrum Values.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Public Sector Project Manager Selection In most government agencies, PMs were seen more so as project monitors rather than project managers. The assignment as a government project monitor was seen as an add-on to one’s normal job. There was no career path for PMs, nor were there job descriptions.

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Agile forecasting techniques for the next decade

Scrum.org

I believe Agile software development is more than ready to use new forecasting techniques to express uncertainy to narrow their decision-making process. These new forecasting techniques are not based on estimations but historical data, thus saving time on the part of developers to focus on what they do best.

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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. Parametric Project Monitoring and Control. Project Performance Management. Agile Project Management.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

“Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). The Use of Precision of Software Development Effort Estimates to Communicate Uncertainty,” Magne Jørgensen, Software Quality Days.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.

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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.