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Raising Climate Awareness in Scrum Teams - a Scrum Master’s Journey

Scrum.org

During that session, the team estimated that optimizing our landscape and decommissioning legacy components could reduce our footprint by a significant percentage! Sustainable IT consists of carbon-efficient applications and infrastructure with minimization of harmful effects. The path toward sustainable IT is not paved.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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Generative AI and Project Management in 2024: Three Themes to Watch

MPUG

Our team at Envorso, a boutique consulting company comprised of West Coast software and Rust Belt manufacturing leaders from companies like Microsoft, Ford Motor Company, Meta, and Rivian, has been front and center for this massive transformation. GitHub’s Copilot helps software engineers generate deployable code.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Deciding how much precision and accuracy is needed for a credible estimate is critical to the success of that decision.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. A final Thought . Flyvbjerg, H. Skamris & S.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. A final Thought . Flyvbjerg, H. Skamris & S.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

The infrastructure removal program meant installing a complete wireless umbrella across several 100 square miles of property with full encrypted security while maintaining voice, data, first responder, physical, and cyber control. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments. Almost impossible?