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In-Depth: The Science On Sustainable Pace, Stress, And Motivation

Scrum.org

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. Although this is often the result of “death marches” and similar requests from management, there are also many situations where developers do this out of their own will.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. When to Use It: The practice originated in software development and works well in that culture. Top 10 Project Management Methodologies.

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

Scrum.org

Hoda & Noble (2017) identified learning processes as essential for teams to become Agile. Ultimately, the role of (top) management is to keep their business healthy and economically sustainable. Journal of systems and software , 81 (6), 961–971. In International Conference on Agile Software Development (pp.

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

Here are three common types of PMOs from across various sectors: Supportive PMO Industry Application - A supportive PMO is common in industries where projects require flexibility and autonomy, such as IT and software development enterprises. Function - A supportive PMO provides guidance, best practices, templates, and tools.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. Risk Management: A Maturity Model Based on ISO 31000,” Diogo Proença, Joao Estevens, Ricardo Vieira, and José Borbinha, IEEE 19 th Conference on Business Informatics , 2017. Dorofee, et.

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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. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

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Breaking Down Silos with Enterprise Work Management Solutions

Leankor

How 1960’s thinking enters the world of 2017 work management is beyond explanation, but it does and is usually the byproduct of some sort of power struggle within the organization that needs to be identified and addressed. But, it happens all the time. We can say it’s bad and implement policies against it and it will STILL happen.