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

Scrum.org

Since I became a Professional Scrum Trainer in November, I have been asked a lot about the current state, and the future perspectives, for Scrum and agile development in Japan, where I’ve worked for the last six years. Yet, Scrum and the principles of agile development are not as common in Japan as they are in other parts of the world.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. reducible and irreducible

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow Blog

Do you know your organization’s project management maturity level? If not, it’s high time to change the situation: project management maturity has a direct impact on a company’s competitiveness and business success. . What is project management maturity exactly, and how to define its level?

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

MPUG

We are a project management consulting company in the Baltimore Washington area. Background myself, I’ve been doing project program, PMO management for going on, I guess, 30 years now. By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. And in project management terminology, we must set the baseline.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Herding Cats

Here's an extract from "Chapter 8: Human Behavior and Complexity," Terry Cooke-Davies, in Aspects of Complexity: Managing Projects in a Complex World. This is a cautionary tale for those listening to the #NoEstimates advocates, where anecdotes of bad management are used in an attempt to replace established principles of business management.

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How to Estimate Any Software Problem

Herding Cats

is not founded on any principle of business management, microeconomics of decision making, or principles of probability and statistics. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Managing a business profitably is always hard work. It's a fallacy.