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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum.

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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The most successful students also include reading a range of PMI-ACP books in their exam prep, as well as a training course, just as that little bit of extra comfort. It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. Short on time? Recommended. The Agile PrepCast.

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IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices

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To accomplish this requires financial governance, creating and controlling an IT budget, tracking expenses and doing cost-benefit analysis of IT investments. This position is also responsible for IT governance , ensuring that standards, rules and proper procedures are being followed. It’s not limited to the IT department.

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Cost and Value Management for Software Development

Herding Cats

This, of course, is a violation of the principles of Managerial Finance and Microeconomics of software development in the presence of uncertainty and scarce resources. Software Project Cost Estimation . There are numerous horror stories about software development cost and schedule overruns.

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How to create a project implementation plan

Planio

This is especially important in software development projects, where terms such as deployment , release , go-live , and implementation get used interchangeably, causing endless confusion and misalignment. Identify tasks, estimate timings, and map a timeline Step 4. Unique to software development projects and product teams.

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. Third, how are we reproducing working tests in software? They may also be writing user stories, using burn-down charts, and practicing agile estimating and planning.

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How to Create a Project Assumptions List: Examples and Template Included

Project Bliss

You assume that the train will run on time. Budget – estimated cost of the project. Technology – this could cover software development, platforms, environments, and infrastructure. Training rooms will be available at the training center as needed. Budget – estimated cost of the project.