Productivity Land

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

And despite all remote work challenges , software developers have much to offer. This popular collaboration software offers multiple features and free and paid plans. If you are a small business owner looking for an affordable team collaboration tool, explore these top five alternatives to Slack software.

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Gunther Verheyen

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Regardless whether free-floating opportunists like it or not, there is no denying that the source and roots of all things ‘Agile’ is the “ Manifesto for Agile Software Development ”, or the “ Agile Manifesto ” in short. Regarding the question whether a process or framework (whatever name they chose for themselves) is “Agile”.

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Agile SCRUM 2013 Software Developers 78

Gunther Verheyen

APRIL 24, 2020

Having worked with Scrum since 2003, I am fascinated by its ever-expanding use, which is not limited to software and (new) product development. Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber moved the development of Scrum forward in the early 1990s. These six essential traits are indicative of Scrum coming to life.

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MPUG

MAY 10, 2022

Scrum was originally used in software development projects. Organizations may also choose to adopt various methodologies to begin managing in an Agile way. For example, Scrum is a methodology which emphasizes delivery in short increments and frequent meetings.

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Agile 2019 2013 Software Review 59

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. What factors lead to software project failure?” All for the want of a nail.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. Nord, CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , May/June 2013.

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Digite

MAY 15, 2018

It also encourages everyone to review/adopt the values (in Scrum language) that can help software development teams succeed in building software. As I wrote in 2013, Scrum and Kanban both share a use of values to encourage users of the methods to behave a certain way. You should go read it now.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Integrating Agile with EVM , EVM World, 2013. Risk Management.

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Teamweek

JUNE 17, 2020

” LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman talked about his agile, project-based hiring approach in a 2013 Harvard Business Review article , explaining that he hires employees on a four-year “tour of duty,” with a check in after two years. The terminology is borrowed from software developers.

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Technical Review 2013 Consulting Innovation 90

Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2013 I accidentally created a book, “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” In 2018 I deliberately evolved my Scrum travel companion into a second edition. More and different people look for guidance and insights on their journey of Scrum, increasingly in domains beyond software development.

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Gunther Verheyen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

From 2013-2016 I maintained the official “Professional Scrum” series of Scrum.org meanwhile training candidate-PSTs and shepherding the global community of Professional Scrum Trainers and coaches. In 2011 I obtained my license as a Professional Scrum Trainer for Scrum.org from Ken Schwaber (co-creator of Scrum).

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. And if the competitor is shipping software with greater value, how does the Cone impact that? 37-48, 2007. 37-48, 2007. Thesis, University of Southern California, August 2012.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. What Is the Scrum Methodology? Learn More!

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SCRUM Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 339

Paymo App

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Year of foundation: 2013. Kunder started out in 2013 as a three person Software as a Service (SaaS) company with one idea: to provide companies with feedback tools for their clients. The tipping point was when Banco de Chile, one of Chile’s largest banks, contacted them to develop a small solution. Employees: 50.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

2] Modified from Gilberto Montibeller, "7 Sins of assessing performance of Strategies," Jyväskylä International Summer School, 2013, Modelling Strategic Decisions, contained in "Value-Focused Thinking as a Problem Structuring Methods," MarkusHartikainen, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Jyväskylä. [3] Keeney and Robin S.

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

Anderson best articulated its application to software development, in 2013, in the foundational book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, and its adoption hasn’t been as universal as Scrum’s during the early days of Agile software development.

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Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 110

TrustRadius Project Management

MAY 1, 2020

Since more people are working from home now than ever before, online communication tools have become the most popular software on the TrustRadius platform. An Overview of Skype Online Meeting Software. Since 2003, this software has been used for personal calls between family and friends and professional calls for businesses.

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Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Support 116

Digite

JANUARY 2, 2017

Ken Schwaber has mentioned that SAFe does not adhere to the Agile Manifesto values (specially the first tenet – Individual and Interactions over Processes and Tool) as it is highly process-centric ( https://kenschwaber.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/unsafe-at-any-speed/ ). Scaling Challenges in Large Programs and Organizations.

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Agile Cadence SCRUM 2013 60

Planio

JULY 9, 2020

Even software. Comfort knowing you’re always running the latest, most stable version of the software. If you’re looking for a new project management tool, this guide will run you through the basics of what Redmine is, why it’s a great choice for most software development teams, and how you can get it set up and optimized for you!

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Herding Cats

JULY 24, 2017

Shipping on time, to specifications, and within budget might be meaningless if a competitor is shipping software that has a greater value to the market. It's suggested from observations, the Cone of Uncertainty (CoU) is not a valid model of how uncertainty behaves in software development projects. Laird and M.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Can All This Formality Have Any Use in Modern Software Development? The notion that agile development is a free-for-all development of what ever the customer wants to produce next, with the customer identifying the next important thing to develop works just fine for de minimus projects.

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2014 2013 2012 Engineering 38

LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Hosted by Peter Taylor, this podcast began in 2013 after he published his best-selling book by the same name. Cost: Coursera: Agile Development Specialization. This course provides a beginner overview of the Agile methodology, specifically within software projects. A new podcast is released every three to four weeks.

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Technical Review 2018 Certification Underperforming Technical Team 113

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

Microeconomics is applicable to the development is software systems. If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." Boehm, Barry W.

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Project Management Hacks

AUGUST 4, 2016

In 2013 , the company delivered 1.5 Through many discussions with my husband – who works in software development – I discovered an interest in the technology field. I led an effort to develop a risk-based software development process. What was the most valuable professional development activity (e.g.

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Stepping Into Project Management

MARCH 10, 2014

Today we interview Siddhartha Govindraj, who specializes in Lean/Agile processes for software development. He was nominated for the Brickell Key award in 2011, an award given by the Lean Software & Systems Consortium for recognizing achievements in the lean-agile industry and is also a Fellow of the Lean Systems Society.

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2011 Lean 2013 Agile 37

Wrike

MAY 23, 2023

A year later, in 2013, they succeeded again. Story #3: Metrics for continuous improvement in software development Along with optimizing test run times, we’re also solving the problem of test stability from quarter to quarter. The team made a complete audit of everything that could be checked and improved by at least 1%.

Engineering 36

Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Controlling Software Review 36

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 2] System Analysis, Design, and Development Concepts, Principles, and Practices, Charles Wasson, John Wiley & Sons. [3] 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] Software Engineering Economics”. Software Eng.,

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 2] System Analysis, Design, and Development Concepts, Principles, and Practices, Charles Wasson, John Wiley & Sons. [3] 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] Software Engineering Economics”. Software Eng.,

Technical Review 28

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. 2] System Analysis, Design, and Development Concepts, Principles, and Practices, Charles Wasson, John Wiley & Sons. [3] 4] Defense Acquisition Guide , Chapter 4, Systems Engineering , 15 May 2013. [5] Software Engineering Economics”. Software Eng.,

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Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

MPUG

AUGUST 25, 2019

Microsoft introduced this new functionality to fix a bug that had been present in the software since I first started using it many years ago. When Microsoft released Project 2010 in beta form, I confirmed that they did fix the bug, but I noted that new behavior in the software would probably confuse people. What is going on here?

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2010 2013 2016 2019 81

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2018

413-426, 2013. A Predictive Analytics Approach to Project Management: Reducing Project Failures in Web & Software Development Projects," Tazeen Fatima, Int'l Conf. Developing analytics models for software project management,” Morakot Choetkiertikul, University of Wollongong, September 9, 2018.

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Aerospace Engineering 2012 2014 41

Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2020

Dependencies are an epidemic in software development. Sutherland, Scrum Guide, 2013. Thing we hear (or say): Organizational Design: My team is mostly back-end; we rely on another team for the (fill in with any component of software – front end enhancements, database layer, integration, API). Schwaber and J.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

When comparing different approaches to develop software, survival bias can lead someone to conclude that plan-driven approaches work well based on a few success stories they have where they did. All drivers consider their own driving skills above average (Roy & Liersch, 2013). The intuitive psychologist and his shortcomings.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. However, several studies show that cohesion positively impacts performance only in later stages of team development (e.g. Information and Software Technology , 48 (4), 235–244.

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MPUG

APRIL 29, 2020

This webinar is an update of Oliver’s MPUG presentation and schedule template provided on October 2013. Our source material is a tool developed in the nineties by PricewaterhouseCoopers while they had a software development contract business. Kyle: We’ll go ahead and get started.

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