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Software Development Estimation: A Quick Guide

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Software development estimation is an essential part of many projects. Despite its importance, software development estimation is often overlooked. Let’s explore how software development estimation works and its techniques and tools. What Is Software Development Estimation? Learn more.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Agile: A Grecian Odyssey through Modern Software Development

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Fast forward to our modern era, as we traverse the intricate landscape of software development, particularly through the lens of the agile approach, we find these age-old Greek sins echoing in the challenges and pitfalls agile teams often encounter.

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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

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In this article, we’re addressing a common question in modern project management: Do we need risk management in agile projects? Do agile projects have risks associated with them? And do we want to let those risks run wild without any effort to contain them? Let’s expand that simple answer.

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Risk Mitigation: Agile Usable Products vs Documentation in Traditional Project Management

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As the software development landscape evolves, evaluating the time-tested traditional project management strategies alongside the burgeoning agile methodologies is essential. While documentation is crucial, Agile’s approach to building usable increments might prove more valuable in the rapidly evolving product world.

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What Is a Burn Up Chart In Agile Project Management?

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The ability to measure progress is how project managers keep projects on track. But if you’re working in an agile environment, the Gantt chart isn’t the right tool for your iterative approach to project management. A burn up chart is a tool used in agile project management to measure progress.

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Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?

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The same can be said for the field of project management, where every constraint usually impacts another constraint, and every missed deadline puts the project off the delivery date by just a little bit longer. 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.

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5 Tips for Better Agile Release Planning

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If you’re working in software development, you know that the software development life cycle can often be frenetic. Product features and stakeholder requirements constantly change, and your initial product development plan might look very different as the project evolves. How does that fit into an agile project?

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