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What are the focus areas of an Agile Coach?

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Though, there is no universal definition of what is an Agile Coach. The first Agile Coaching Competency framework was developed by Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spaydback in 2011. My definition of Agile Coaching. He started his career as a Software Engineer and spent almost eight years as a hard-core Programmer.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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A working definition of Agile and Stakeholders. I prefer a process-based definition of agility. This definition answers the question: “What kind of processes typically happen in Agile teams that distinguish them from non-Agile teams?”. Hoda, Stuart & Marshall (2011) interviewed 30 Agile practitioners over a period of 3 years.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

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The cone says the effort estimate determined in earlier phases of the project, such as the definition of the initial concepts, might differ up to four times from the final one. This variation can be explained by the fact that initial concepts do not describe the final software system accurate enough. 1, January 2011. "A

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Software Estimating Resources

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“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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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

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Some of the references in the paper “The impact of inadequate customer collaboration on self-organizing teams” by Hoda, Noble & Marshall (2011). A ranked list of academic journals for the field of software engineering (there are many dozens) at [link] One question I always ask myself when I read a paper is: “Where was it published?”.

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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. 5, September/October 2011. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

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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. 5, September/October 2011. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.