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

Scrum.org

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.

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow Blog

OPM3 was developed by the experts of the Project Management Institute, so it’s considered as a standard for achieving organizational PM maturity. The main advantages of this model are as follows: It’s based on the PMBOK Guide and incorporates expertise of hundreds of project management practitioners and consultants. .

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

MPUG

We are a project management consulting company in the Baltimore Washington area. 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.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

The original post, while likely well meaning, coming from direct experience, focuses on ME the developer. And like many posts and tweets about estimating, it's made from this point of view, not the business point view, not from the point of view of those paying the developer. This Value is developed during the Product Planning session.

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How to Estimate Any Software Problem

Herding Cats

Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Before listening to any conjecture that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of Uncertainty for software development, please read these books. What are we looking for? Reading Materials.

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

MPUG

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. By education and training.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

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. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments.