Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

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. I experienced that first hand when I was consulting for a big Japanese insurance company. How can we help?

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Agile Software Engineering 125

Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. We engineers should always keep in mind that software development is usually one part of many others inside the company.

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Estimate Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 46

Herding Cats

APRIL 8, 2017

These systems fall into the Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) category. The notion that innovation and engineering - software engineering - are somehow in conflict is common. . Both agile advocates and engineered systems advocates practice innovation and creativity. Related articles.

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Web Development Software Engineering Engineering 2010 37

MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

We are a project management consulting company in the Baltimore Washington area. By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. And there’s just a quote here from a consultant in the DC area that says, “Managing a project without metrics is like sailing a ship without a compass.”

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 18, 2023

In some cases a consultant, coach, or colleague may be saying, “you’re doing it wrong.” A blog article describing “fake Agile” may be resonating a bit too much for comfort. Focus on Agile principles, not practices Let’s go back to 2001 and take a look at the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Just about anything.

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Fractional VPE Agile Software Review 2001 148

MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Before listening to any conjecture that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of Uncertainty for software development, please read these books. Related articles. Reading Materials.

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