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

Scrum.org

The Japanese also value and take pride in careful planning and flawless execution. A couple weeks later, the Scrum team was staffed with competent people from Sales, Sales Planning and IT, and we even had a team room with brand new furniture. boosting its economy (¹⁰), and reshaping its culture along the way.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Our knowledge of this world - the planned and actual behaviors of the project. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

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 ? As more details get developed, the Cone converges to the actual value. Steve McConnell. 1, January 2011. "A 37–48, 2007.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What is the Plan to reach done at the needed time for the needed budget, with the needed outcomes? 4] Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for S oftware Development. [5]

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Planning, Tracking, and Reducing Complex Project’s Value at Risk,” Tyson R.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. We engineers should always keep in mind that software development is usually one part of many others inside the company.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

MPUG

Please send those over at any time using the chat question box on the “go to webinar” control panel where we do plan to answer those questions for you throughout the session today. By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. Kyle: Do you have any questions during today’s presentation?