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Becoming Agile: Evidence Based Management

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In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their hearts and minds had been won decades ago. Agile transformation, you would surmise, is a done deal with the higher-ups.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

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What contexts are Scrum suited to, and which not? What if you end up applying a methodology like Scrum to a context where it isn’t suited, and people leave the company as a result? when everyone is pro-Scrum, or against SAFe or against estimation, or exclusively Scrum Masters? Is scaling always a bad idea?

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

A Survey on Software Estimation Techniques in Traditional and Agile Development Models,” B. Software Cost Estimation Approaches: A Survey,” Ismail Keshta, Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 10, 824?842, Prakash and V. Viswanathan, Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. December 2010.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . An Analysis of XP, TDD, Pair Programming, and Scrum (Using Real Options),” Dr. David Rico, [link] davidfrico.com/rico08b.pdf. Improving Subjective Estimations Using Paired Comparisons,” Eduardo Miranda, IEEE Software Magazine, Vol.