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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

I’d like to begin by sharing a brilliant quote that puts the latest project management fashion, Agile, into humbling perspective: “ 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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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Can Functional Size Measures Improve Effort Estimation in SCRUM?” Comparison of Functional Size Based Estimation and Story Points, Based on Effort Estimation Effectiveness in SCRUM Projects,” Erdir Ungan, Numan Çizmeli, and Onur Demirörs, 2014 40th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, pp.