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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

Since I became a Professional Scrum Trainer in November, I have been asked a lot about the current state, and the future perspectives, for Scrum and agile development in Japan, where I’ve worked for the last six years. Yet, Scrum and the principles of agile development are not as common in Japan as they are in other parts of the world.

Underperforming Technical Team

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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

According to the Project Management Institute’s Pulse of the Profession survey , 81% of top-performing companies prioritize the development of technical project management skills. Next, ask your team questions. If you can’t walk the walk with your development team, they’re going to reject your suggestions.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

Risk Management

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. reducible and irreducible ?

Risk Management

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The Short Guide to Hiring for High-Growth Startups: 2022 Edition

Teamweek

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While this rapid rate of employment may look impressive, the consequences of bad hires soon outweigh the benefits. . This puts pressure on the hiring team to deliver top-notch candidates at pace with no room for error. Startups are High Risk – Objectively, start-up businesses are risky places to be.

2022

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. There was another study done that shows that 122 million wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance, a 12% increase over the previous years. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers.

Performance Measurement

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If, for example, a project manager believes a member of his or her team is a fast and effective worker, each time that team member works fast and effectively or is told by a colleague about the work that has been done fast and effectively, the project manager will consider his or her belief to be well-founded. What To Do Next?

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Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. Closed Loop Stochastic Adaptive control in the presence of Evolving Uncertainty. Uncertainty creates Risk. This extended post covers.

Technical Review

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Skills Mismatch | What Is It & How to Bridge the Gap

Teamweek

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Understanding this mismatch is key to ensuring your team’s talents are used effectively and your business thrives. Continuous investment in employee development (onboarding programs, ongoing training, fostering a learning culture) is vital to prevent mismatches.

Technical Review

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Deux

Herding Cats

JANUARY 14, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create risk to the success of the project. Since all project work contains uncertainty, reducing this uncertainty - which reduces risk - is the role of the project team and their management. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Trois

Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review

Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Aleatory and Epistemic uncertainties, which create the risk to the success of the project. Other uncertainties that create risk include: Unrealistic performance expectation with missing Measures of Effectiveness and Measures of Performance. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Technical Review

Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review

Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. What does the team care about?

Performance Measurement

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and management. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. We assess physical percent complete at close business every single day, with the update of the TO DO field in Rally at the Task level.

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Use Agile Project Management with MS Project – Transcription

MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

Melanie here with team MPUG. I’ll also invite you to stay on after the event and the recording closes. He has 30 years as a new product development project management professional. You can get on Excel with teams and some other collaboration package. You may watch the recording of this webinar at your convenience.

Agile

Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Cadence

Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and business management. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy, since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. The notion of waterfall development on slide 9 as actually prohibited in our domain. Have you done a Root Cause Analysis?

Underperforming Technical Team

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Defensive Programming Grows Up

Leading Agile

JUNE 18, 2018

I remember joining a team in the late 1970s that supported an application used worldwide by a large corporation. The team resolved to drive that number down. It’s amusing until one reflects on the potential consequences when a large proportion of software we depend on for everyday life is of this quality.

Software Review

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How to Become an IT Project Manager Without Experience

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. 10 to 15 people on the project team.

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Project Requirements Management – Part 3: Monitoring and Controlling Requirements Transcription

MPUG

JULY 16, 2021

This is from the PMI, pulse of profession survey and it says that 47% of unsuccessful projects fail to meet original goals due to poor requirements. Why is there a 30% failure rate that are the result of inaccurate requirements gathering or poor requirements. Validation, the team built the right system. What is going on?

Monitoring

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points.

Estimate

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The Beginner’s Guide to Using Project Planning Software

Paymo App

JULY 16, 2018

Unfortunately, not having one is still common in practice for smaller teams in particular. Picture this: Your task list is forever growing, new team members are showing up every three weeks, and your client is always asking for last minute changes. Selecting project team members. Identifying risks and planning to prevent them.

Software Review

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Webinar Recap: Want To Be A PMI-ACP? The Primary Steps to Take

MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The whole gamut of frameworks and methodologies you’ll be learning while doing ACP certification, such as XP, that is Extreme Programming, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, which is Feature Driven Development and TDD, which is Test Driven Development, among many others. Then team members. So this is newly added.

PMI

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Why Your Software Isn’t Soft and What You Can Do About It

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Today, we take a look at why your software isn’t soft, explore the challenges of writing code at scale, and discuss a modern approach to writing code that will maintain its safety and simplicity over time. Video Transcript Chris Beale In traditional software development. There’s this idea of test driven development.

Software

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What’s Worse Than Not Automating Your Software Delivery Pipeline?

Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Two closely related conceptual errors appear to be quite common. Creating or modifying database schemas.

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Project Management Update

Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

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Risk Management Resources

A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

The Short Guide to Hiring for High-Growth Startups: 2022 Edition

Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

Skills Mismatch | What Is It & How to Bridge the Gap

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Deux

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Trois

Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq (Updated)

Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Use Agile Project Management with MS Project – Transcription

Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Defensive Programming Grows Up

How to Become an IT Project Manager Without Experience

Project Requirements Management – Part 3: Monitoring and Controlling Requirements Transcription

DDSTOP The Saga Continues

The Beginner’s Guide to Using Project Planning Software

Webinar Recap: Want To Be A PMI-ACP? The Primary Steps to Take

Why Your Software Isn’t Soft and What You Can Do About It

What’s Worse Than Not Automating Your Software Delivery Pipeline?

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