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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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For example, there are supposedly eight stances for Product Owners. Sverrisdottir, Ingason & Jonasson (2014) interviewed Product Owners from different organizations that there are often multiple Product Owners for the same product, even though the Scrum Guide prescribes against this. . What strategies make them more?—?or

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

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For example, an organization with a very flat hierarchical structure may both enable high agility as well as high morale or high stakeholder satisfaction. 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.

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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. 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.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. De Meyer, C.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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The likelihood of a failure for example. So in the end, if we are to make a decision in the presence of uncertainty, we MUST make estimates to develop a reliable shipping date while producing an accurate and precise estimate of the cost, schedule, and technical performance of the product shipped on that date. Eggstaff, Thomas A.

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

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This is an example of Stop Doing Stupid Things on Purpose. The classic example is in Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot where the investigators have pre-determined the cause of the occurrence. An example of a Root Cause Analysis is Benjamin Franklin's Why Analysis †. Why Do Information Technology Projects Fail?”

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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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." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.