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Agile Laws to Help with Transformation

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Agile Laws in Software Development On many occasions, working with agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. Curtis Carlson: “ In a world where so many people now have access to education and cheap tools of innovation.

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

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The software had to be just good enough for the client to sign off on it, and since they were largely captive clients unable to look outside their keiretsu group for support, that was a very low bar indeed ". In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking.

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Getting Hired as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach

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Here’s an example: InfoQ — a community news site facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in professional software development — has a rigorous editorial process and focuses on delivering quality content to its audience. After having joined them, post your question(s), remembering to be compliant with the group rules.

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The Scrum Master Job (1): 4 Steps to Identify Suitable Employers or Clients

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The reasons for this are apparent, with software eating the world and the pace of innovation accelerating as the market-entry barriers of the technology sector are continuously lowered. Venture capital is also widely available, and startups are gaining an innovative advantage over established organizations.

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The Agile Feature-driven Development Methodology

The Strategic Project Manager

Feature Driven Development (FDD) is an agile methodology specifically applied to software development. What Is the Agile Feature-driven Development Methodology? Feature-driven Development (FDD) is one of several agile methodologies or approaches (some other popular ones include Scrum , XP , DSDM, and Crystal ).

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

Throughout this post, we define them as “all users, customers, and other people or groups who have a clear stake in the outcomes of what this team produces, and invest money, time or both in making sure that happens”. SCRUM and productivity in software projects: a systematic literature review. The first term is Stakeholder.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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 ‒ Steve McConnell. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.