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

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Hoda, Stuart & Marshall (2011) interviewed 30 Agile practitioners over a period of 3 years. SCRUM and productivity in software projects: a systematic literature review. In 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) (pp. Journal of systems and software , 81 (6), 961–971.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

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Project Management Institute (PMI) [8] presents similar results about uncertainty, except that their results introduce an asymmetric cone where initial estimates vary between +75% and –25%, budgetary estimate between +25% and -10%, and the final estimate between +10% and -5%. "A 1, January 2011. "A 1, January 2011. "A

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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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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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The notion (as suggested in the quote) of shifting from accurate (what ever that means) ways of estimating to reliability shipping be a date is not physically possible since the irreducible and reducible uncertainties are always present. Mazzuchi, and Shahram Sarkani, Systems Engineering , Volume 17, Issue 4, Winter 2014, Pages: 375–391.

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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.

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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). Books can also be extended opinion pieces, where no actual data is presented. I always find it most helpful to start with a review article, and then investigate their references more fully.

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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.