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Map Your Route to Mastering Agile Fluency

Scrum.org

Without defining value, no agile transformation is possible. And in the 21st century for software development teams, this means realizing the paradigm of Continuous Delivery. Once the value is defined and the teams starting to learn and deliver, the change isn't done yet. It all starts with focusing on value.

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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

MPUG

We learn as we go and take small steps with defined budgets, resourcing, and time-boxes. As we will see, agile methods are, to a degree, a response to the kind of risks that software development projects face. As a result, some people might expect that agile projects have – or even need – no risk management.

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New PM, New Choices

Leading Answers

When our projects undertake defined, repeatable work using technologies and approaches our organizations have experience in, then uncertainty and change rates are typically low and manageable. Here, formal planning and estimation are difficult because we don’t know what we will encounter.

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GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide Applied to Agile

Herding Cats

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. There are not specific to Agile Software Development. The order of the needed Capabilties in defined in the business strategy. . This is connected to the Financial Plan for earning back the investment of the development. But here's how they are connected.

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

When people make such statements, they usually mean that they have trained product owners and a proficient Scrum master, and their team consistently follows the cadence of sprint planning, daily stand-ups, interviews, and retrospectives. We also need to define the acceptance criteria of Agile. What is the acceptance criteria for Scrum?

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A modern (and easy) guide to the 5 agile ceremonies

Planio

Agile ceremonies — also known as Scrum ceremonies or just ‘events’ — are specific events that provide a structured framework for iterative software development processes. Agile is an umbrella term for different iterative and feedback-driven software development processes. Update user stories to properly estimate tasks.

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How to make a project schedule you’ll stick to in 9 steps (with free template)

Planio

Define your project goals. Estimate task time and effort. But to correctly estimate start and end times , you first need to know what needs to be done at a high level, what resources you’ll require, and a basic outline of their order. At a minimum, you should know what type of person you’re basing your estimate on.