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On Technical Debt And Code Smells: Surprising insights from scientific studies

Scrum.org

Why is code quality so often an issue? Why do software teams?—?despite So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”. Technical Debt and Code Smells.

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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For more up-to-date software reviews, see my complete list here. Google Analytics tells me that 6 Things I Didn’t Know About Being a PM was the top post of 2013. Google Analytics tells me that 6 Things I Didn’t Know About Being a PM was the top post of 2013. I didn’t write it, by the way.). It’s free.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

But as Unger-Windeler and her colleagues write (2019): “While [the] role is supposed to maximize the value of the product under development, there seemed to be several scattered results on how the Product Owner achieve this, as well as what actually constitutes this role in practice.”. And Product Owners certainly seem to play a role there.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). By Luigi Morsa. The most popular and pioneer methods, as highlighted by Conboy et al.

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MS Project: An Ever-Evolving Solution

MPUG

But let’s face facts: Microsoft is in the business of selling software, and they were not going to combine these two! I got to thinking about my history with the MSP the other day, and thought the software’s evolution might be an interesting topic to explore. MSP 2013 ran on Windows 7 or 8. MSP 2019 runs only under Windows 10.

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Newbies’ Guide to Scrum Project Management 101

nTask

Some of its approaches, other than Scrum , include Extreme Programming (XP) for quality upfront building, Lean thinking for waste elimination and the Agile Unified Process (AUP) approach to developing business application software using agile techniques. It helps quicker delivery and better frequency in the software release by organizations.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Springer, Singapore, 2019.