Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM The quest for methodologies that offer efficiency and agility has never been rockier. Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 17, 2024

This concept is vital across methodologies like Agile and Waterfall , where its application significantly influences project outcomes. Ready to transform your project delivery process? Learn how to collaborate effectively, detail deliverables, set standards, adapt to feedback, and continually refine processes.

Software Review 52

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 25, 2021

Read on and learn how to employ search-engines, LinkedIn’s people search, reaching out to peers in the agile community, and analyzing the event markets in the quest for your next Scrum Master job. ?? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 29k other subscribers.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Note that Bass calls this “Groom” in reference to “Product Backlog Grooming”. Traveler: The process of building an understanding of stakeholders by visiting them and spending time with them. References. Beecham, S.,

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

However, their position as a technical leader means they also need to understand common coding languages, app architecture, and QA processes. Technical project managers straddle the line between business and engineering and need to bring the two together in several ways. How software systems are architected. How websites work.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

TL; DR: Getting Hired as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach Are you considering a new Scrum Master or Agile Coach job? Read on and learn how to employ search engines, LinkedIn’s people search, reach out to peers in the agile community, and analyze the event markets in the quest for your next Scrum Master job.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Root Cause is the fundamental initiating cause on a causal chain leading to a failure of a process which results in a recurrence of the problem. Root Cause Analysis is a systematic documented approach to arrive at the true Root Cause of the process problem. References . What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When taking the Customer Representative stance, the Product Owner tends to explain how our work affects customers, users and business processes. The term is used in software engineering; especially in development methodology Extreme Programming and Agile software development. — Wikipedia , Oktober 2019?—?.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 1, 2018

We're writing two chapters in an upcoming Project Management Book, with a working title, The Gower Handbook of Project Performance for Agile, Waterfall and Everything in Between , edited by Mark Phillips. The Cone of Uncertainty,” Stephen Gryphon, Phillippe Kruchten, and Steve McConnell, Letters, IEEE Software , 23 (5) 2006, pp 8?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. I quickly found hundreds of academic papers that investigated Scrum and Agile teams. References in academic papers are also a good source.

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Planio

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Organize “show and tells” for engineers to show off what they’ve been building. The right hiring process is the ultimate “growth hack”. If you want to attract the best remote developers to your team, this is the best process to follow. You’re prepared to go through the hiring process. Pending 1st interview.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I work in a domain where engineered systems are developed for complex software-intensive system of systems. These systems are engineered with a variety of development methods. Ranging from traditional to agile and combinations in between. Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

I work in a domain where engineered systems are developed for complex software-intensive system of systems. These systems are engineered with a variety of development methods. Ranging from traditional to agile and combinations in between. Paradigm of agile project management from Glen Alleman. .

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I work in a domain where the CoU is baked into the Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM) processes flowed down from the buyer, in this case, the Federal Government. Here is a sample of reference papers used in our domain that may help further the understanding of how the CoU is used. The original idea came in 1981.

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. Understanding of SDLC can make the whole process more efficient. When I googled “software development life cycle definition” I found different variants. That is true.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

The requirements documents (in whatever form) are the basis of the process to verify these needed capabilities with customers and internal or external stakeholders and validates these requirement meet to need strategic intent of the work. [2]. Act as the reference for validation and stakeholder acceptance. that will be necessary.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

After having worked for outsourcing, consultancy and product companies I believe that creating a place where people really trust each other is easier when software engineers and stakeholders are both part of the same organization. Similarly, product lifecycle management (PLM) integrates people, data, processes and business systems.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population or generated from a model of the process being estimated.

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Scrum.org

MAY 17, 2022

Namely, that Scrum Masters are often more focused on the quality of the process than on the value of the outcomes. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. The authors systematically interviewed 47 agile practitioners about the typical activities of Scrum Masters.

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Wrike

MARCH 4, 2015

This quick reference guide is in question and answer format, so you can easily look up solutions to common problems and find the full answers you need, right when you need them. Follow the roadmap Kerth outlines to identify what went well and what you can improve to make your processes and teams even stronger. . Brooks, Jr.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Today I’m going to introduce you to leading Agile’s new Chief Operating Officer, a gentleman by the name of Philippe Bonneton. So what we’re going to talk about a little bit over the last leading Agile’s been around for about 13 years and really what we’re known for is Agile. Philippe, say hi.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Today I’m going to introduce you to leading Agile’s new Chief Operating Officer, a gentleman by the name of Philippe Bonneton. So what we’re going to talk about a little bit over the last leading Agile’s been around for about 13 years and really what we’re known for is Agile. Philippe, say hi.

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Technical Review Software Review Engineering Infrastructure 62

Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2022

It’s about collaboration and openness, and speaking of collaboration, I am pleased to inform you that this article was written in cooperation with Stefano Milanesi ; a fantastic Agile Coach and consultant whom I was lucky to meet on my professional journey. . Working software over comprehensive documentation.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Scrum/Agile) are more suitable to deal with complex problems because they are more attuned to our cognitive abilities. Why our brain is not built for software engineering. Attention is the process of selectively concentrating on one aspect while ignoring other aspects. waterfalls) are very likely to fail.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 13, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? The term “Developer” seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. This effect is often referred to as scope-stretching or gold-plating. Read More : Why Engineers Despise Agile. ).

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Keeping code clean at all times really ought to be considered baseline job performance for a software engineer. The fact people had to coin a special buzzword to describe it, and that software engineers today argue against doing it, is a shame. We just do it. The Scout Rule. High quality is assumed to be part of our job.

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Teamweek

JUNE 13, 2023

For example, knowledge of certain applications, processes, problem-solving abilities, and technical know-how. Learning agility According the the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report , 50% of all employees will need reskilling by 2025, in order to keep up with the adoption of new technologies.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We have gone an extra mile to illustrate various real life use cases and examples where waterfall is implemented, and how one can use nTask to further simplify that process – so on and so forth. It follows a sequential, linear process which is why it is often described as a “linear-sequential life cycle model”. Dr. Winston W.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

But when some statement is made about risk, estimating, performance modeling, or the like - always ask for references. No References? Agile Risk Management and DSDM Pocketbook , Alan Moran, IARM. Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Management for Engineers and Scientist 2nd Edition , Ernest J. All these books are in print.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Under his leadership, over 100 professionals have earned the Agile Certified Practitioner, ACP certification, and many have written their detailed success stories. He frequently writes on Agile topics, bringing in innovative practices. Now in the world of Agile, things are not static. Why should you go for it?

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MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

Traceability in an agile life cycle consists of? How are the requirements monitored and controlled in an agile lifecycle? And I think the reason being is that along the way, in this requirements management process, there was not an appropriate traceability and monitoring process set up. The system is being built right.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

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Wrike

APRIL 5, 2021

Software development has changed radically in recent years, so why are our processes still the same? Release management is a modern solution to the unique challenges software engineers and project managers face today. This software project management method covers everything from ideation to release. Stay flexible.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Where do you find these Reference Classes ? . There was a banner campaign to get the message across.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Define Reference Classes for those Capabilities and the Features that implement them.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Reference Design Concept - reference class forecast is the key to estimates if you've never done the work before. Credible Estimating Processes - prediction is difficult, but prediction is the basis of all decision making. Software Estimating Taxonomy. Alternatives to Agile Estimation. Quote of the Day.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“We’re an Agile agency ??.”. You probably already know—Agile isn’t just for software developers anymore. Increasingly agencies, consultancies, and other knowledge-based project teams are adopting Agile as their preferred method to deliver projects. What is an Agile agency? What is Agile methodology?

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