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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences. To download: QRC (Leadership for agility, 200725) v1.0. The book is divided into four sections. Conclusion.

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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. Download This Template. Who should attend?

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

Planio

If you’re using Agile, you’ll want to determine a sprint cadence that will let you hit your quarterly OKRs. (We Download This Template. Download This Template. What is the best project scheduling software to use? The best project scheduling software is intuitive to use, easy to update, and integrates with your workflows.

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The Customer Representative (A Preferred Product Owner Stance)

Scrum.org

The term is most often applied to a representative of a company, or proxy, who works closely with a producer or developer to clarify specifications for a product or service. The term is used in software engineering; especially in development methodology Extreme Programming and Agile software development. — Wikipedia , Oktober 2019?—?.

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The 10 steps to an Agile transformation (with free checklist)

Planio

Download our free Agile transformation checklist! Download This Checklist. This means embracing an iterative and customer-centric focus on all levels of the business, from how you build software to how you organize and run your customer support team, performance reviews, and growth strategies. Download This Checklist.

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Is Macroeconomics and Social Science the Same as Software Development?

Herding Cats

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. Of course not.

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

In contrast, Edward Yourdon’s book, Death March: The Complete Software Developer’s Guide to Surviving ‘Mission Impossible’ Projects , describes the harm the death march pattern causes and advises software development teams on how to survive it. Survival is the best the teams can hope for.

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