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Process Reduces Agility? Only on De Minimis Projects

Herding Cats

A popular toss off aphrase in some agile circles is process reduces agility. In this domain today, Agile processes are the basis of engineering those systems. IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW ACQUISITION PROCESS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS. The last four are of course replicas of agile guidance.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? While some have publication dates that may seem old, the principles in these books are immutable, even for agile projects.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Scrum Ceremonies

ProjectManager.com

Together, they estimate what it will take to complete the items on the list. People report honestly on what they did, what they plan on doing and how they might be getting blocked in the process, and this is all done in front of their peers. Related: Top 12 Agile Principles. It was first officially noted in the 2011 Scrum Guide.

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The Psychology of Forecasting Uncertainty

LiquidPlanner

LiquidPlanner can help take the guesswork out of forecasting, seamlessly processing the knock-on effects of revised estimates, resource-leveling across related dependent tasks, and mitigating the impact of uncertainty in the most efficient way possible. . Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. .

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Managment Processes. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) , AACE Workshop, Denver, Colorado, April 16, 2011. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline , AACE Workshop , April 16, 2011.

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Software Review: Roadmap Planner [2017]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I don’t think it’s meant to be used in the same way as a backlog in Agile methods, but it’s certainly useful to be able to record everything you were thinking when you created that roadmap item. Roadmap Planner creates a strategic plan aligned in swim lanes so you could adapt it for recording any process if you wanted. From $12pm for.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

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 ? The difficulty of accurate size estimation is compounded especially at the time of inception when very little information is available.

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