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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

Scrum.org

What is the optimal size of a team? Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? Is scaling always a bad idea? Of all the impediments that a team faces, which is the one to focus on first?

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The Art of Mastering Project Surprises: Easy Strategies for Managing Unplanned Work

Traxidy

A task should not be so large that it becomes difficult to estimate or manage. A task should not be so large that it becomes difficult to estimate or manage. Poor communication: Team members not communicating effectively with the people they need to align with for the task to be completed.

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Why do most projects fail?

Binfire

Forbes magazine also opined about the high rate of project failures recently. . The overconfidence of the developers and project members? If the scope defined properly, it will be much easier to accurately plan and estimate the project duration. 6-Inexperienced development team. So, why so many projects fail?

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Becoming Agile: Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their hearts and minds had been won decades ago. If the measurement of value is poor, then the outlook is grim. is not the bombshell moment it used to be.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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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?

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Advertising agency workflows: 11 steps to building better processes

Resource Guru

Any thriving creative team is supported by a solid advertising agency workflow. billboards and magazines) and broadcast (i.e., Not only do advertising agency workflows differ from workflows for other agency types—say recruitment or software development. Ultimately, poor workflows will affect your client-agency relationship.

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