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Busy, But Not Productive

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Kanban is a flow-based management practice initially developed to reduce inventory and manufacturing costs. These practices are now widely used to visualize and manage work in industries as diverse as software development, operations support, and non-profit management. That is a demoralizing statistic! Make Work Visible.

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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). Fixed price without fixed specification,” Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory, 15 March 2016. Better Sure than Safe?

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Risk Management Resources

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Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. Historical and Recent Development Trends,” Terje Aven, Reliability Engineering & System Safety , Elsevier, 99, pp. 2128, International Technical Paper , 2016. 255, April 2010.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Integrating Agile Software Development with Earned Value Management , College of Performance Management, IPM Workshop, 2015. Agile Software Development.

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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.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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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. 2128, International Technical Paper , 2016.

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The Agile Cannon

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The paper Agile Base Patterns in the Agile Canon , Daniel R Greening, 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences is an important contribution to the discussion of agile at scale in organizations beyond 5 developers at the table with their customer. The Agile Cannon is composed of 5 elements.

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