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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

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. That hasn’t stopped practitioners from using scrum in varying industries, from retail logistics to event planning.

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The 5 Biggest Project Management Trends Shaping 2018

PM Basics

2018 isn’t going to be the year of breakout technology or an influx of government-hired project management professionals. Marketing, finance, and even construction are now adopting an Agile development framework. Marketing, finance, and construction have already hopped on board. Becoming Agile. DevOps as a Part of Agile.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

There are mysteries to managing in the presence of uncertainty for those who understand the principles of Risk Management of cost, schedule, and technical performance and know how to apply them using Managerial Finance, Microeconomics of Software Development, and Probabilities Decision making.

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Black Swans

Herding Cats

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. Nassim Taleb’s books make use of the concept of a “Black Swan.”

2002 34
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How to Estimate Any Software Problem

Herding Cats

Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Here are some books and papers that can provide you with all the tools needed to learn to estimate in the presence of uncertainty. Ask the person making those conjectures if they have read the books.

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Black Swans

Herding Cats

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. Nassim Taleb’s books make use of the concept of a “Black Swan.”

2002 28
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The #NoEstimates Paradigm and Response

Herding Cats

When we hear a suggestion about a process that inverts the logic of normal business activities based on a governance framework - say Microeconomics of Software Development, we need to ask who benefits? It is likely those paying us have some sort of governance process in place for managing the spend of that money.