NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

When the Agile methodology was first introduced, it was embraced as a welcome replacement to the rigid Waterfall approach. The community largely accepted Agile and Waterfall as mutually exclusive project management paradigms. Critics of Agile believed that Agile simply translates into fast failure.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 19, 2022

When it comes to Agile Transformation, every organization has to find a way to overcome whatever is blocking the organization’s ability to be Agile. Agile Impediments exist at many levels, but most large scale Transformations now require that technical practices are more sound than ever. . Agile Impediment 1: Packaged Software.

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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. From individual coding tasks to large-scale releases, the DoD sets the bar for quality and completeness, ensuring everyone - from developers to stakeholders - is on the same page.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

There is a better way than staggered iterations for delivery that will keep you on the path to agility. Staggered iterations lead to more technical debt and lower quality software. Move all requirements for shipping your software into your Sprint. Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Martin Hinshelwood.

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Scrum.org

JULY 7, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile. On many occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. In that respect, the current issues that many distributed teams face may also act as accelerants to become more agile.

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Technical Review Agile Software Review Software Engineering 145

Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. The reason for this surge in popularity is quite understandable, the majority of projects benefit when managed using lean concepts promoted by Agile project management methodology.

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

But what if you’ve never written a line of code in your life? While most technical project managers aren’t expected to code (and most haven’t done serious development work in years), they have the background to make technical decisions, understand tradeoffs, and spot risks that a typical project manager might miss.

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used in the software development and IT industry for the past sixteen years, but recently it has gained wide acceptance by many number of industries and organizations. But the tide is turning and Agile is gaining wide acceptance as a valid process for many projects.

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Leading Agile

MAY 25, 2023

In Agile, you only get the full benefits of Scrum and SAFe when certain conditions are met in the organization. People will often break the methodology or the framework instead of changing the org design and sacrificing their ability to be truly Agile. The Preconditions for Agile Hey everybody, welcome to our little video recording.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This comprehensive article will delve into the world of SREs, exploring their role, responsibilities, importance in business operations, the intersection of software engineering and systems administration, and the future trends shaping this crucial field. Lastly, SREs are responsible for capacity planning and performance optimization.

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Scrum.org

JULY 14, 2021

Daniel is a Professor at the University of Aalborg and is specialized in empirical software engineering. Please note that our paper is currently reviewed by academic peers. . How can Scrum Masters and Agile coaches support this through exercises and workshops? How can you make a Scrum team more effective?

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Planio

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Step 10: Do your due diligence before you make the offer. 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.

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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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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. Have you noticed?

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 67

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Traveler: The process of building an understanding of stakeholders by visiting them and spending time with them. Intermediary : Acting as an interface between management and the team and the process of disseminating domain knowledge.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? This variation can be explained by the fact that initial concepts do not describe the final software system accurate enough.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 28, 2024

TL; DR: Agile Laws in Software Development On many occasions, working with agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 49,000-plus subscribers. edition ! ?

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Workzone

JANUARY 18, 2023

Brightpod They call it “gracious” project management software. See where each project stands in relation to its due date and know the next steps. It’s specifically built for technicl creatives—such as game developers, UX designers and software engineers. Or have very systematic processes? Pricing: $6.80-$12.75/month

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

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. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. 3, March 2002.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The connection with software development/maintenance is probably obvious. Tying Up Loose Ends in Software. If anything, you ought to ask for special permission not to keep the code clean as you go. Keeping code clean at all times really ought to be considered baseline job performance for a software engineer.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

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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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 18, 2023

Sometimes a team is new to agile and just wants to know if they are on the right track. A blog article describing “fake Agile” may be resonating a bit too much for comfort. First however, I suggest examining the question itself, “Am I doing Agile right?” It turns out that “agile” isn’t really a process.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Most organizations build structures and processes designed to prevent project failure. However, Muratgali Karimsakov , a Project Engineer at Karachaganak Petroleum, warns that lessons learned must be applied in the right way: “Unfortunately, the lessons learned process in many companies doesn’t work properly.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2023

Even if a team is driven by value, agility is compromised when validation and value realization take excessively long. VSM acts as a catalyst for continuous refinement, offering insights into existing processes. VSM, versatile in its application, is especially impactful when integrated with Agile practices like Scrum and Kanban.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. Aleatory uncertainty is expressed as a process variability. First, let's establish a principle.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

This is a recurring theme of #NoEstimates it's a waste to me the developer, I'd rather be coding , I'm not good at estimating , I see no value in my making estimating when you're just going to use them against me when I'm late and over budget. Root Cause: Productivity is the efficacy of the investment of time, talent, and money.

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Epicflow Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

When your mind processes new information, its perception of time changes. David Johnson, an Agile Coach at USAA, says: “I will typically ‘build something’ to take my mind away from work and exercise my creative side. You’ll feel both productive and relaxed, not having due dates to follow or standards to meet. Do Something New.

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Energy Software Review Software Engineering Engineering 93

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. What factors lead to software project failure?” All for the want of a nail.

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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. So where do you find it?

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Stepping Into Project Management

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

So, here are a few: Project Manager (United Health Group)- Hyderabad (India) Project Manager – Job No.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 8, 2017

Much of the conversation in social media around agile techniques seems to be based on the differences between the variety of choices of a method, a process, or a practice and definitions of terms for those choices. I work in a domain where systems are engineered for the customer.

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Wrike

MARCH 4, 2015

Projects fail all the time, whether due to faulty strategies or uncontrollable circumstances. His solution is unconventional: with a huge staff of software developers at his disposal, he splits them into eighteen teams. Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews – Norman L. Brooks, Jr. Author Frederick Brooks Jr.

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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. Sizing Challenges," Victor Fuster & Taylor Putnam-Majarian, Software and IT-CASR Proceedings , 22-24 August 2017. Newnes, Linda B., Mileham, Antony R.,

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Scrum.org

MAY 17, 2022

We recently discussed a case on our community Discord that concerned a team without proper Sprint Reviews, stakeholders, and increments. But why wasn’t the strategy to show our teams how to do a proper Sprint Review, and to get as many stakeholders into the room as possible, and then reflect on what that was or wasn’t like together?

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Leading Agile

JUNE 27, 2018

In 2012, I wrote a blog post entitled “Delivering provably-correct code.” ” In it, I suggested several approaches developers could use to gain high confidence that their code would be suitable for release. When they talk about the “correctness” of software, they’re talking about two different things.

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

When we talk about software project management in a conversation related to the organizational paradigm, it usually comprises of all of the things from software development, documenting the whole process, testing every single element, and delivering the finished product on time. Software Project Management.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It’s one of the development skills that system administrators and infrastructure engineers are picking up from the software engineering world as devops gains ground in the industry. I don’t want to give the impression that test-driven development (TDD) is unique to Pester and Powershell.

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