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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

Iā€™d like to begin by sharing a brilliant quote that puts the latest project management fashion, Agile, into humbling perspective: ā€œ A Waterfall project is just an Agile (Scrum) project with one huge sprint! The latter, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) came from the Rapid Application Development movement.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement ā€“ Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. This is part one of the series.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,ā€ Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp.

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 1 ā€“ Understanding & Incorporating Agile Project Management

MPUG

He’s an accomplished speaker, consultant and educator supporting the project management community for over 25 years. But you’ve probably seen this in your career where you have people jumping around going, “Oh, hey, here’s the next silver bullet,” or, “We are going to turn into a scrum or an agile shop.”

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

High WIP levels and failure to recognize delivery capacity, identify scarce resources, and consider estimates led to intense pressure to deliver late in the project schedule. Zombie Scrum describes the impact on delivery teams. When agile consultants advise organizations to form small teams, the problem worsens.

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 3 ā€“ Best Practices & Real World Use of Agile with MS Project / Project PPM

MPUG

He’s an accomplished speaker, consultant and educator, supporting the project management community for over 25 years. So again, part of that Agile discipline is to help the teams be focused, to help them estimate and learn because in many cases, they’ve never done this work before. I can kind of plan and estimate.

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