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The Power of Adaptability: Why Defining Requirements Up Front Doesn't Align with Scrum

Scrum.org

For this reason, defining requirements up front is not compatible with Scrum, because Scrum teams don’t deliver value in one “big bang”. In this article, we will explore how defining requirements up front limits the Scrum team’s ability to learn, inhibits incremental delivery, and ultimately clashes with Scrum.

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How to Actually Define Risk Categories

Project Risk Coach

Let’s look at how to actually define risk categories and how they can help Tom (and you). Imagine a project manager who is managing a software development project. How to Define Risk Categories. Click here to see an article by Dr. David Hillson on this topic. What areas have the highest risk exposure?

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A PM’s Guide to Agile Software Development

Project Bliss

Everybody’s talking about agile software development these days: project managers, software developers, IT directors, small startups and big corporations. What is Agile Software Development? Agile software development is an approach that promotes delivering value quickly to the customer.

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12 Ways to Manage Project Quality Without Drama

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The basics: defining quality Knowing how you are going to manage quality feeds into your quality plan (obviously). The APM BOK defines project quality as: “The fitness for purpose of the degree of conformance of the outputs of a process, or the process itself to requirements.” The options are: Once (i.e.

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Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management

PM Basics

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. When I googled “software development life cycle definition” I found different variants. Phases in Software Development. Concept Development.

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How to Overcome 12 Common Requirements Mistakes

Project Risk Coach

The project manager should define the approach to requirements development and management. Read my article: Why Project Managers Need Business Analysts. One of the greatest sins of software development is allowing users to specify things that will never be used (or rarely be used). 12 Requirements Mistakes 1.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. When to Use It: The practice originated in software development and works well in that culture. Top 10 Project Management Methodologies.