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A Quick Guide to Value Engineering for Projects

ProjectManager.com

That, in a nutshell, is value engineering. As you can imagine, value engineering is a popular business pursuit. But what is value engineering, how do you implement it and is it different across industries? But what is value engineering, how do you implement it and is it different across industries? Learn more.

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Why Agile Engineering Practices in Software Development Are Essential to Achieve Agility

Scrum.org

In the Oxford Diary, the word agility is defined as the ability to move quickly and easily. It is therefore understandable that many people relate agility to speed. The term “agility” is often used to describe “a change of direction of speed”. Agility involves the ability to react in unpredictable environments.

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Job of Agile Release Train Engineer and Status Reporting

The Strategic Project Manager

This post examines the overall responsibilities of the Release Training Engineer (RTE) within the SAFe methodology. Release Train Engineer Responsibilities Before diving deeper into reporting responsibilities and challenges for the RTE, let’s put it all into perspective by looking at the whole range of responsibilities of the RTE.

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Why Engineers Resist Scrum & How to Win Them Over

Scrum.org

In this Responsive Advisors Lightning Round, we unpack the challenges and triumphs of adopting Scrum in engineering teams. Discover how Scrum's focus on customer satisfaction, team collaboration, and iterative progress can revolutionize your product development process.

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Unlocking Agile's Missed Potential!

Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

Many organizations feel that Agile has not delivered on its promises. Engineering teams thought they would be given time to build the product correctly, but they are still rushed to deliver features within impossible schedules. Agile doesn’t need to change. What went wrong?

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Embracing a Systems Engineering Approach to Agile at Scale

Leading Agile

What if, instead of focusing on all the Agile practices, we started applying some of the things we know about systems engineering to help large companies become the kind of organization that can leverage those practices? Video Transcript Agile is a way of enabling work cells in that factory. But what is the factory?

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Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Newton’s third law is also true in the case of agile vs waterfall, where one sprang to life as a reaction to the other. The waterfall methodology is a process where project activities are broken down into linear phases. What is Agile? Even though agile is popular, the history of agile is in its infancy.

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