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Building blocks of the next generation of Organisations

Scrum.org

Customers will become a direct extension of your business by working more closely with your teams; if engaged, they will stick around. Having devoted communities aid in the organisation's ability to conduct its business, sustain itself, and produce excellent results. Co-workers ? Coworkers are no longer colleagues.

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The Agile Manifesto, Explained

ProjectManager.com

The phrase agile software development was first used in 2001, but agile was in fact being applied to projects since the mid-1990s. Software developers started to emphasize close collaboration between teams and stakeholders , frequent delivery of business value and self-organizing teams. Is Agile a Methodology?

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How To Carry Out a Requirements Analysis

Wrike

Requirements analysis in software engineering . While requirements analysis is beneficial to any project, it is most common in software engineering. In software engineering, requirements analysis, known as requirement engineering, defines expectations for new software being built or modified. .

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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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Agile Project Management Principles

Binfire

Promote close day-to-day collaboration between business managers and developers. The Agile approach works best when business people and developers work closely together. Where this is not practical, communication software and other technology solutions should be used to facilitate close collaboration.

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

Transitioning from manufacturing to software engineering and development and various other industries, the Kanban Board has become a fundamental tool for visual management in project and workflow management, credited to the Agile movement. XP is definitively Agile and fundamentally distinct from the Waterfall model.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Accuracy - how close is the estimate to the actual value? Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Nord, CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , May/June 2013.

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