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

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But adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility. Adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility.”. I prefer a process-based definition of agility. Although we used Scrum teams for our investigation, these processes are generic enough to apply to Agile teams in general.

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Money is important, but it is not what drives me

Gunther Verheyen

We have three kids (2001, 2003, 2013) of which the two oldest (sons) have a disability ( Duchenne and Down Syndrome ). Money was not what drove my wife and I when I gave up my position as software engineer and aspiring project manager in favor of running a bookshop (1996). Let there be no misunderstanding: money is important.

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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’”. Traveler: The process of building an understanding of stakeholders by visiting them and spending time with them. Beecham, S., Razzak, M.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. Aleatory uncertainty is expressed as a process variability. First, let's establish a principle.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999.

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

Herding Cats

Root Cause is the fundamental initiating cause on a causal chain leading to a failure of a process which results in a recurrence of the problem. Root Cause Analysis is a systematic documented approach to arrive at the true Root Cause of the process problem. Daniels, Complex Adaptive Systems, Procedia Computer Science, 20 (2013), pp.

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