Scrum.org

JULY 7, 2020

From the long list of observation, heuristics, and mental models in psychology, organizational design, or software engineering, I pick six “agile laws” that seem to be particularly relevant in this area of distributed agile teams: Conway’s Law. Remote Agile (Part 1): Practices & Tools for Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. But the tide is turning and Agile project management is gaining wide acceptance as a valid process for most projects. Agile was adopted by the software industry soon after the Agile Manifesto was written.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

TL; DR: Getting Hired as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach Are you considering a new Scrum Master or Agile Coach job? Don’t worry; there are four steps of proactive research to identify suitable employers or clients for getting hired as a Scrum Master and avoid disappointment later. I just received my author copies ! ?

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Let's start with some books. While some have publication dates that may seem old, the principles in these books are immutable, even for agile projects. Prentice Hall, 2000.

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Scrum.org

MAY 17, 2022

The first intuition of many Scrum Masters?—?including I have a hunch that this single observation alludes to a more persistent pattern across Scrum Masters. Namely, that Scrum Masters are often more focused on the quality of the process than on the value of the outcomes. So what do Scrum Masters do most of their time?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. Aleatory uncertainty is expressed as a process variability. First, let's establish a principle.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Most organizations build structures and processes designed to prevent project failure. However, Muratgali Karimsakov , a Project Engineer at Karachaganak Petroleum, warns that lessons learned must be applied in the right way: “Unfortunately, the lessons learned process in many companies doesn’t work properly.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Norton, The Systems Engineering Process Office, MITRE Corporation, 6 June 1999.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When taking the Customer Representative stance, the Product Owner tends to explain how our work affects customers, users and business processes. The term is used in software engineering; especially in development methodology Extreme Programming and Agile software development. — Wikipedia , Oktober 2019?—?.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 28, 2024

Your single best investment to improve your professional standing; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Brooks’ Law Frederick Brooks stated in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” edition ! ?

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Leading Agile

MAY 25, 2023

In Agile, you only get the full benefits of Scrum and SAFe when certain conditions are met in the organization. Solid technical practices and your full-stack developer’s software craftsmanship are also limited by the conditions inside your organization. That’s what user stories do, that’s what Scrum does.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

What contexts are Scrum suited to, and which not? What if you end up applying a methodology like Scrum to a context where it isn’t suited, and people leave the company as a result? Thought-leaders often have a stake in promoting certain beliefs, so as to bring people to their classes, books, or products. So where do you find it?

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

After having worked for outsourcing, consultancy and product companies I believe that creating a place where people really trust each other is easier when software engineers and stakeholders are both part of the same organization. The Product Manager is not always the same as the Scrum Product Owner.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Let's put aside for the moment the missing principles of managerial finance, probabilistic decision making, microeconomics of decision making, Real Options, Bayesian decision networks, and other decision making processes used in modern business when spending other people's money. Read the entire book, Learn how to think as an estimator.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

Thus, I’ll share her contact and the book we’ll be discussing today in our survey email, following the event. He co-authored with me the Agile chapter of the Step by Step book. This is reader’s accessibility to books. It is a point system in the process and I think that that’s okay. Lewis: Great.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process. This is simply good process development and management. What is the Root Cause of the process not being trusted? Or are you taking observations and deciding that the process is broken without finding the actual cause of the undesirable outcomes?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process. This is simply good process development and business management. What is the Root Cause of the process not being trusted? This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy, since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return.

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PM Basics

JULY 1, 2020

For sure, the easiest way to become a software project manager is by getting a promotion inside an IT company. So, if you are just starting your career, I strongly recommend getting a job on an IT project in any other capacity like QA, Developer, DevOps, Business Analyst, or a Scrum Master. You don’t do it on your own.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

So here are some books, handbooks, and guides that sit on my shelf that are used pretty much all the time on the Software Intensive System of Systems we work on. I'm not expecting anyone to read all these books. All these books are in print. or the many 100's of papers on risk management we use as well. No References?

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PM Basics

MAY 16, 2022

But this book can teach you everything you need to know: Project management theory doesn’t work! This book describes my practical framework from 10 years of practical experience. Get The Book. Additionally, need to learn a bit about Scrum and Kanban. At this stage, I don’t recommend investing in a certification.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Satya is a management professional, speaker, coach and author of six books, including the book I Want To Be An ACP. So you have master in Scrum, or master in Kanban or like a professional in Lean. For example, last year, they audited a number of books into the ACP certification reference and they removed also a number of books.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." .

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Credible Estimating Processes - prediction is difficult, but prediction is the basis of all decision making. Books for Cost and Schedule Forecasting. How To Estimate Almost Any Software Deliverable in 90 Seconds - here's an example to debunk all those posts that say e can't possibly estimate things we don't knwo the details of.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Whether you’re a small team of freelancers or a large agency, your company needs a project management tool that fits your processes like a glove. Before choosing a specific tool though, you need to decide on the type of project management software you need. Let’s look at these types of project management software in detail.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . The Design Structure Matrix .

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Processes and tools ? It’s important to remember that your agency processes become your greatest selling point as an employer. When you’re leading an agency providing marketing, web development, branding, or software engineering—your success is defined by creativity. Becoming an Agile agency is not an overnight process.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The number of software engineers is expected to triple the number of mechanical engineers this year alone. inaudible 00:28:24] Project management book of knowledge. This is what you have, the daily scrums, very quickly, as well. You get to choose your tool, simple, the process is-.

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