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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

Inloox

A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. The only way to relieve that stress is to remain calm about the situation and take action to keep the situation under control. " Larry Constantine is a software engineer and designer who pioneered the Structured Design approach to software development.

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Building blocks of the next generation of Organisations

Scrum.org

Sadly, there is a knowledge gap in assisting organisations in understanding strategies that can influence their agility and support teams in change. Coordination that is voluntary improves commitment and self-control. This is especially true for organisations that need to change quickly and pursue new strategies. Hierarchy ?

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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson

Scrum.org

From the long list of observation, heuristics, and mental models in psychology, organizational design, or software engineering, I pick six “agile laws” that seem to be particularly relevant in this area of distributed agile teams: Conway’s Law. Agile Laws: Conway, Brooks, Hackman, Goodhart, Larman, and Parkinson. Brooks’s Law.

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Product-Market Fit: What Is It & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

You can thank Marc Andreessen , the American entrepreneur, investor and software engineer, for the hyphenated phrase. When you know the value proposition, you have the seed from which to grow a successful product strategy. What is Product-Market Fit? In other words, if there’s a demand for the product, the product will sell.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Embracing the Hybrid Project Revolution

NimbleWork

Deployment or Maintenance: Implementing strategies to resolve defects, process change requests and follow up on customer feedback to ensure optimal performance. Comprehensive requirements and design documentation provide a high level of predictability and control. These goals are likely achieved by adopting a flexible Agile approach.

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

Scrum.org

This requires highly controlled experiments where only the level of agility is manipulated in a team. Several empirical studies have indeed found that teams with a frequent delivery strategy are more likely to deliver successful project outcomes and satisfy stakeholders than teams that do not ( Chow & Cao, 2008 , Jørgensen, 2016 ).

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5 Hidden Agile Impediments That May Be Blocking Your Transformation

Leading Agile

The overhead of packaged software solutions and testing those packaged solutions gets in the way of doing those things.Also, all the work you had to do to integrate, migrate data, and customize those solutions when you first installed them has to be retested every time there’s a new version, patch, or release—another time consuming task. .

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