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What are the focus areas of an Agile Coach?

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The first Agile Coaching Competency framework was developed by Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spaydback in 2011. I have taken this model as a reference to help illustrate the focus areas of an Agile coach when it comes to Coaching. He started his career as a Software Engineer and spent almost eight years as a hard-core Programmer.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

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References in academic papers are also a good source. Academic authors usually explicitly reference where their ideas or claims come from. It is often helpful to identify and follow these references if you’re interested in them. Some authors are merely proposing an idea and may reference only supporting evidence, or not at all.

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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. References. SCRUM and productivity in software projects: a systematic literature review. In 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) (pp. Cardozo, E. Araújo Neto, J.

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

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But when some statement is made about risk, estimating, performance modeling, or the like - always ask for references. No References? Henry Montgomery (Editor), Universitetsforlaget; UK Edition, November 28, 2011. 3421, Second Edition, December 2011. I'm not expecting anyone to read all these books.

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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.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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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 ‒ Steve McConnell. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.

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

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Part 2 will take these Root Analysis principles and apply them to actual software problems, and the fallacies that simple and simple-minded corrections will fix anyting - stay tuned. References . When you hear a solution without references - reference that is not self-referenced or simple-minded reference, stop listening or reading.

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