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How to Fund a Software Development Project

ProjectManager.com

A critical success factor for a software development project is how it is funded. But greater flexibility generally requires a more skillful approach to governance and project management. But greater flexibility generally requires a more skillful approach to governance and project management.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum.

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IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices

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To accomplish this requires financial governance, creating and controlling an IT budget, tracking expenses and doing cost-benefit analysis of IT investments. This position is also responsible for IT governance , ensuring that standards, rules and proper procedures are being followed. It’s not limited to the IT department.

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When to Estimate and When Estimates aren't Needed

Herding Cats

Paul Boos has a post about estimating and makes a case for the Principles of when NOT to estimate. This struck a cord around a bigger topic - the inversion of estimating. When should we NOT estimate? Then on to the original conjecture for No Estimates from Paul's post. That is, to make decision with “No estimates”.

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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,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate. Project Governance The framework and guidelines for decision-making, responsibility, and accountability within a project.

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How to Estimate Any Software Problem

Herding Cats

ways to make decisions with No Estimates. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? An estimate is. It's a fallacy.