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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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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. Scrum allows you to create flexible project plans that can be adjusted at any point without impacting your project or budget.

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Cost and Value Management for Software Development

Herding Cats

we focus on Value and don't need to worry about Cost. 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 . Overlooking key project risks.

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

Project Bliss

Budget – estimated cost of the project. Finances – funding to complete the project. Schedule: tasks, durations, and dependencies needed to complete the project. Methodology – the approach you’ll take to completing the project. Budget – estimated cost of the project.

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Best PMP Software Free Tools To Use In 2022

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According to Wellingtone’s annual report 2020 , 89% of organizations have one or more Project management Offices (PMOs). It has also been noted that companies that have developed project management practices save 28 times more in finances than those that do not. How PMP Software Transformed the Project Management Scene?

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Black Swans

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This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty.

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Black Swans

Herding Cats

This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty.

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Software Cost Accounting

Herding Cats

It is allocated funds to the budget for the project. But in the software development world, the domains of IT, there are two other colors of money. There are two types of software that are developed for a business: 1) internal-use software, and 2) software developed to be sold, leased or marketed (“software to be sold”).