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

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So we went to Google Scholar and searched for review articles. Many studies have identified high autonomy as an important prerequisite for Agile teams ( Moe, Dingsøyr & Dybå, 2010 ; Donmez & Gudela, 2013 ; Tripp & Armstrong, 2018 ; Melo et. A survey study of critical success factors in agile software projects. 2013, June).

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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Van Waardenburg & Van Vliet (2013) offer a case study in a large organization and conclude that “The Project Manager focuses on the ’how’ of a project, the Product Owner focuses on the ’what’”. One of the reviewers of this article, Maarten Dalmijn , noted that he missed “product discovery” as a core activity in the work by Bass (2018).

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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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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. 5, October 2013.

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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. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L. Kirkeboen, G., &

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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. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.