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Making the Move from Business Analyst to Product Owner

International Institute for Learning

You get the word: “We are going AGILE!” And that means no more business analysts. Just as there is no crying in baseball, there are no business analysts in Scrum. Now what do you do? Ask for a transfer to another area within the organization that still uses business analysts?

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6 major factors affecting resource capacity planning in 2019

Resource Guru

Resource capacity planning is the umbrella of methods business leaders use to quantify their team’s bandwidth for projects. Most firms tend to need a diversity of skill sets, like administrators, programmers, consultants, designers, and analysts, to complete any given project. Wishful thinking. 15 account managers.

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Part II: A Simplified Approach to Determine IT Project Complexity

PM Times

While that may seem obvious to many IT PM professionals, that is not necessarily the case with many business executives looking for payback from their expensive IT department. IT Executives are constantly justifying their department to the C-Level executives' cries to exactly why “does IT need so many people, and what do they actually do”?

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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.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

And when you hear estimates are a waste you'll realize that person must work in a de minimis project, where those paying have no need to know how much it will cost, when the project will be done, and what Capabilities they'll get for that time and money before the time and money runs outs. Tanilkan, Hans Gallis, Anette C. Lien, and Siw E.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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. Pich, Working Paper, 21/2006, Cambridge University, Judge Business School. “A Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Pich, Working Paper, 21/2006, Cambridge University, Judge Business School. “A These papers and other resources were retrieved from public sites. Some may require a membership.