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Overseeing 135 book reviews, what stands out?

Henny Portman

I provided book reviews for all eight issues of a Dutch Project Management Magazine (Vakblad Projectmanagement). On request of this Dutch PM magazine, I was asked whether one or more common threads could be discovered in all these underlying books. Many books are about business agility, culture and / or agile transition.

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Use Mob Programming to Maximize your Learning

Scrum.org

In every Scrum.org Professional Scrum Development class, we touch upon both technical and collaboration practices to help improve the development teams explore new options. Partially due to the unit tests providing a safety net and automatically validated documentation, but also because they had been part of the creation of the code.

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Why do most projects fail?

Binfire

Forbes magazine also opined about the high rate of project failures recently. . In the Agile method, the project manager is replaced by an experienced Scrum master is needed. Think of project scope as the document defining the project’s goals, deliverables, features, and cost. . So, why so many projects fail?

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80+ Awesome Online Resources for Project Managers

Wrike

Choose from exam prep in several areas of project management, including Agile and Scrum certification. This 230-page behemoth is a comprehensive overview of project management, from Agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban, tips for choosing the right software, and essential soft skills of the best project managers. . DrunkenPM.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . An Analysis of XP, TDD, Pair Programming, and Scrum (Using Real Options),” Dr. David Rico, [link] davidfrico.com/rico08b.pdf. Improving Subjective Estimations Using Paired Comparisons,” Eduardo Miranda, IEEE Software Magazine, Vol.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Measuring Software Functionality Using Function Point Method Based on Design Documentation,” Anie Rose Irawati, and Khabib Mustofa, IJSI International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. Can Functional Size Measures Improve Effort Estimation in SCRUM?” 9, Issue 3, No. 1, May 2012. The ROI of Agile VS. Traditional Methods?