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Contracting for Agile Software Development Efforts

Scrum.org

Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. Your legal department is trained to protect the firm from all the bad things that can happen when the unexpected occurs. Combine that tendency with management’s desire to protect their jobs when the bad things happen.

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Risk Breakdown Structure for Projects: A Complete Guide to RBS

ProjectManager.com

Either way, project managers have to prepare for risk, either good or bad—it can interfere with project objectives. More often, you’ll address it during the planning phase when you assign roles and responsibilities to your team members. To manage risk correctly, you need to use project management software. Management.

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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”. What’s so bad about scope creep anyway? It takes its toll on team morale.

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What does it take to launch agile software? Q&A with Jordan Husney, CEO and Founder of Parabol

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For much of the early 2000’s, large companies would shudder at the thought of operating a team in an agile way. Why is there so much software choice? The value derived from holding a retrospective is proportional to the talent of the facilitator, and the intimacy of the team. This growth has seen a huge rise in agile tools.

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What is Visual Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Visual Project Management is a process that uses the visualization of the project delivery process to drive team behaviors: to collaborate and effectively manage projects to deliver on time. VPM treats project execution as a process, with principles and practices to create repeatable, scalable results. Decisively?

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What Is a Common Misconception About Agile and DevOps?

Agilemania

To meet these demands, many companies have adopted new ways to integrate development, operations, and other departments as well as use Agile and DevOps principles. Read on to discover more about the importance of Agile and DevOps in software development. Agile vs DevOps: Two Paradigms for Software Development.

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Creating the Conditions for High-Performance Development Teams

Leading Agile

A couple weeks ago we did a recording session with Chris Beale, who is one of our most senior executive consultants, runs a lot of our large enterprise class engagements. And Kevin Smith, who is a kind of chief architect, principal consultant in our studio. How do you get leadership engaged? What other questions that you might have?