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Agile & Project PPM: The Better Together Story

MPUG

There are many who have the misconception that Agile is just for software development. It has been and is being used for manufacturing, engineering, construction, testing, and many other project processes that require iterations or iterative working sessions leading to a final result. Understanding Agile.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile OnĀ Evidence

Scrum.org

There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. What distinguishes academic journals from regular magazines is that each submitted paper goes through a lengthy peer-review process. So where do you find it?

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a projectā€™s outcome; it is to determine whether a projectā€™s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ā€’ Steve McConnell. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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#PMOT ā€“ Who are the Project Managers on Twitter to Follow?

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Happiness Engineer at @Automattic , author of [link] , podcaster at [link] , husband, father, and a silly, silly man: cesarabeid.com. Civil Engineer. Agile Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the concepts of Agile software development as outlined in the Agile Manifesto. Cesar Abeid: @cesarabeid.

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Resources for Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. The chief critic of the cone has data collected from his projects that develop Products. From his article in an IEEE magazine often quoted by No Estimates advocates. .

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,ā€ Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,ā€ B.

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How will PPM need to change in the next few years?

Planview

    The Executive Director of Global Products Engineering Operations for Johnson Controls, Maribeth  Achterberg , said another requirement will be the need to provide full portfolio transparency whenever possible, combined with the ability to become more forward-looking.

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