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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

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Since I became a Professional Scrum Trainer in November, I have been asked a lot about the current state, and the future perspectives, for Scrum and agile development in Japan, where I’ve worked for the last six years. Yet, Scrum and the principles of agile development are not as common in Japan as they are in other parts of the world.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

This is the motivation for short work intervals found in agile development. . Mazzuchi, and Shahram Sarkani, Systems Engineering , Volume 17, Issue 4, Winter 2014, Pages: 375–391. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. The probability of something happening.

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Turof, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering , 400, 2018. “A

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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

Herding Cats

June Verner, Jennifer Sampson, and Narciso Cerpa, Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, 2008. “A The True Meaning of Root Cause and Root Cause Analysis (RCA),” Gary Jing, 2013 ASQ World Conference. What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects? Why Do Information Technology Projects Fail?”

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Little [8] makes the claim that agile methods don't follow the Cone - that is the uncertainty doesn't reduce as the project proceeds. A Quick Estimation Approach to Software Cost Estimation," Leckraj Nagowah, Hajrah BibiBenazir, and Bachun, African Conference on Software Engineering and Applied Computing , . "A

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Is Software Development Art or Engineering

Herding Cats

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. These systems were designed and built incrementally and iteratively decades before Agile was even a thought for the authors of the Agile Manifesto.