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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Project Governance. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) , AACE Workshop, Denver, Colorado, April 16, 2011. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline , AACE Workshop , April 16, 2011. Project Breathalyzer.

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The Roles and Responsibilities of a SAFe Agilist You Never Knew

Agilemania

Be it monitoring and control, collaboration, stakeholders onboarding, change management, and governance methods, the problems only keep increasing. It was circa 2011 when Dean Leffingwell decided to conceptualize the Scaled Agile Framework. Kanban is a preferred framework for implementing Agile and DevOps software development.

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Picking a Project Management Methodology

MPUG

Federal and state governments. Software development. In 2001, new methodology pioneers met in Snowbird, Utah to share their experiences and to suggest ideas for improving the world of software development. They came up with the Agile Manifesto to streamline the development process. Energy and utilities.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

Herding Cats

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects? All for the want of a nail.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

“Quantifying Uncertainty in Early Lifecycle Cost Estimation (QUELCE),” Robert Ferguson, Dennis Goldenson, James McCurley, Robert Stoddard, David Zubrow, and Debra Anderson, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-2011-TR-026 ESC-TR-2011-026. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E.

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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

Digite

hours, Published February 2nd, 2011 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform). This book describes why students, parents, business leaders, major corporations, and world governments all see immediate results with Personal Kanban. Principle of Product Development Flow. Personal Kanban: Mapping Work – Navigating Life.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 5, September/October 2011. 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.