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Managing risk

Scrum.org

Often I hear people say that Scrum does not take care of risk: there is no risk log, risk is not on the agenda of the Sprint Review or Retrospective as a standard agenda-item. The Development Teams need to be accountable for the quality of the product and how it's made. Time to read: 7 minutes (11 if you watch the video's also).

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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What does a project manager do?

Planio

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. Assessing and mitigating project risks 7. Updating project management software to keep their team on track 9. But there’s a problem.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

This is simply good process development and management. Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

This is simply good process development and business management. Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This, of course, is simply poor process improvement and a fallacy, since without the root cause the symptom cannot be fixed and will return. And the practices are not connected to any principle.

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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. For software development starts with. I couldn't see this in the text. . But what it really says is.

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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. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. We use Vitech's Core.