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

Scrum.org

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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Agile vs Waterfall: Embracing the Hybrid Project Revolution

NimbleWork

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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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

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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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

Planio

Technical project managers have a unique insight into how products get built that allows them to collaborate better with development teams, identify technical risks or inefficiencies, and make smarter decisions about how new features will work (or not) within your product roadmap. How software systems are architected.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Revisited

Herding Cats

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. One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management. 37–48, 2007.

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

Herding Cats

Part 2 will take these Root Analysis principles and apply them to actual software problems, and the fallacies that simple and simple-minded corrections will fix anyting - stay tuned. References . When you hear a solution without references - reference that is not self-referenced or simple-minded reference, stop listening or reading.

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Why Johnny Can't Estimate? (Update)

Herding Cats

These systems are engineered with a variety of development methods. Ranging from traditional to agile and combinations in between. Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. This uncertainty creates risk, which can be reduced through specific actions. (2) In all cases, we start our work with.