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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Instead, you would probably get more use out of investing your reading time in User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Mike Cohn). I would suggest it’s User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn. User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn.

PMI 195
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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: And welcome to Part 2 of MPUG’s Project Performance Measurement course.

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Definition of Done

Herding Cats

The common definition of the Definition of Done in agile software development is (mostly from the Scrum Alliance and other official Scrum sites): A simple list of activities (coding, comments, unit testing, integration, release notes, design documents, etc.) These Measures have Little meaning to the Decision Makers.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Earned Value Management (EVM) A systematic approach to project performance measurement assessing schedule and cost performance. Project A project is something that has a definite start and end (i.e., Dependency Mapping Identifying and documenting the relationships and dependencies between project tasks or activities.

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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

Yeah, I’ve been in environments where I said we wanted to have a team and, you know, over the years we have outsourced all of development. So you definitely can have that right. And, you know, ultimately the thing that slows software development down is fear of change. Also, review performance measures.

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Different Project Management Terms Beginners Should Know

ProProfs Project Management

Performance Measurement Baseline. This creates a point of comparison of all the other baselines to evaluate project performance. It refers to all the change-related process that need to be performed during project execution. Optimistic Duration. It includes the coordination, management, and evaluation of project changes.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened.