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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. 2010) reviewed 28 scientific studies that investigated how Scrum is associated with overall business outcomes. A strength of such a review is that it allows for the identification of patterns across many studies. Journal of systems and software , 81 (6), 961–971.

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Dependency Management – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

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Dependencies are an epidemic in software development. Sutherland, Scrum Guide, 2013. Scrum Master or Tech Manager. No-one knows better than the development team the art of the possible when it comes to using technology to solve problems. Are there multiple levels of review? Schwaber and J.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

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However, several studies show that cohesion positively impacts performance only in later stages of team development (e.g. Since Tuckman, many models for team development emerged that don’t assume a linear progression through stages. This is probably due to the difficulty of measuring many teams over a long period of time.

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Risk Management Resources

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Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. A Critical Review Of Risk Management Support Tools,” Irem Dikmen, M. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. De Meyer, C.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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“Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). The Use of Precision of Software Development Effort Estimates to Communicate Uncertainty,” Magne Jørgensen, Software Quality Days. “The

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Software Estimating Resources

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Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.