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Software Development & Management

Alan Parker Blog

Introduction to Software Development and Management Purpose The fundamental purpose of software development and management practice is to ensure that software applications meet the diverse needs of internal and external stakeholders.

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12 Ways to Manage Project Quality Without Drama

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The basics: defining quality Knowing how you are going to manage quality feeds into your quality plan (obviously). The APM BOK defines project quality as: “The fitness for purpose of the degree of conformance of the outputs of a process, or the process itself to requirements.”

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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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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. I created a free online app called the Scrum Team Survey. Screenshots of the survey.

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

Scrum.org

And we share results from our own analyses based on actual data from stakeholders and Scrum teams that we collected through the Scrum Team Survey. Before we begin, we need to define some of the terms we will use throughout this post. The second term I’d like to define is Agile or agility. The first term is Stakeholder.

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10 Quick Tips To Improve Cross-Functionality Within Your Scrum Team

Scrum.org

All quick tips are included in the Scrum Team Survey. With this free product, Scrum teams can diagnose themselves with an extensive, scientifically validated survey and receive detailed results and evidence-based feedback upon completion. Give it a try, and receive quick tips for each of the 30 topics the survey contains!

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Shift-Left, Shift-Right, Keep Middle

Velociteach

Success Factors and Acceptance Criteria After defining the problem space, we should define the solution space. Well-defined, clear, and measurable goals are key to project success. The definition of done establishes overall quality standards for each step in the development process.