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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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The book laid out the principles of lean manufacturing, which focuses on reducing waste, creating customer value and seeking continuous process improvement, and kanban. For software development , kanban fosters dynamic task management, speeds up delivery cycles and improves customer satisfaction, all of which align with agile.

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

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So here are some books, handbooks, and guides that sit on my shelf that are used pretty much all the time on the Software Intensive System of Systems we work on. I'm not expecting anyone to read all these books. All these books are in print. Misconceptions of Risk , Terje Aven, John Wiley & Sons, 2010.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Revisited

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We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. In the book is the mention of the Cone of Uncertainty as it applies to managing in the presence of uncertanty.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

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Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Let's start with some books. While some have publication dates that may seem old, the principles in these books are immutable, even for agile projects. Prentice Hall, 2000.

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Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 255, April 2010. 24, 2010. “A México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 255, April 2010. 24, 2010. “A México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L. Kirkeboen, G., &

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