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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

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日本語版はこちら ) The state of Scrum and agile development In 1986, professors Takeuchi and Nonaka published the famous white paper entitled, "The New New Product Development Game" (¹). In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking. Why is that?

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Software Estimating Resources

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“Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.