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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Julian Bass and his colleagues (2018) investigated which core activities Product Owners spent their time on in ten multinationals. This includes training, technical support, and preparation for new releases. The Sprint Review is an excellent opportunity to engage in product discovery. Insight #3: Product Discovery Is Missing?

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

Scrum.org

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. A strength of such a review is that it allows for the identification of patterns across many studies. Information and Software Technology , 78 , 83–94.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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

Herding Cats

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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Skills Mismatch | What Is It & How to Bridge the Gap

Teamweek

Common causes for skills mismatches are poorly written job description ads, gaps in the hiring procedures, overemphasizing job experience over skills, and emerging technologies. they have the skills needed to succeed in a tech-focused manager-level position and their employer isn’t using those skills effectively). More than 1.3

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Review of Product Development Books

Leading Answers

These websites and software services will only be “done” development when the company stops being competitive, offering new services or keeping up with technology evolution. At one time getting to "Done" on your software project was a relief, a goal, a milestone, now it is more of a tombstone. October 2018.

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Build a CI/CD Pipeline in the Cloud: Part Three

Leading Agile

Review the Story. Let’s review our first Story before we proceed: blog-ci-cd-pipeline-cloud-3.html. That’s test-driven development (TDD) in a nutshell. Note: Some people like to call “basic things about software” by the name, “software engineering principles.”