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Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management

PM Basics

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. When I googled “software development life cycle definition” I found different variants. Phases in Software Development. Concept Development.

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Economics of Software Development

Herding Cats

For example, about which software to buy, which Features in the development backlog should be implemented next, what prices to charge for products and services. Software development is an exercise in microeconomics, since it deals with limited resources - time, cost, and what value is produced in exchange for the time and money.

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The Agile Manifesto, Explained

ProjectManager.com

Either way, agile offers a fast and nimble way to work that first benefited software development before expanding its reach to almost every industry. The phrase agile software development was first used in 2001, but agile was in fact being applied to projects since the mid-1990s. The Role of Cross-Functional Teams.

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

Scrum.org

This is an advantage because complex product development usually requires close, trust-based collaboration between people with different skills and perspectives. In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking.

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

Ready to transform your approach to project management and software development? Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. Columns include "Reported," "Confirmed," "In Development," "Testing," and "Deployed."

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What Makes Scrum Teams Effective? A scientific investigation of 1.200 Scrum teams

Scrum.org

Daniel is a Professor at the University of Aalborg and is specialized in empirical software engineering. I am an organizational psychologist and Scrum practitioner with a love for survey development and statistics. For example, Scrum teams seemed to be more effective when they collaborate closely with stakeholders.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

Is it really that important that they are autonomous, able to release frequently, interact closely with stakeholders and spend all that time on continuous improvement? However, the sheer effort involved is so gargantuan that this is close to impossible. SCRUM and productivity in software projects: a systematic literature review.

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