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Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?

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Commonly used in engineering and software development, it’s a more structured approach because progress falls in one direction, like a waterfall, from ideation to launch. Design : There are two parts to this phase, including logical design and physical design, all resulting in the software or product architecture.

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Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management

PM Basics

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. When I googled “software development life cycle definition” I found different variants. Phases in Software Development. Concept Development.

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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

Inloox

In this article, we present 8 project management guidelines that help you deal with failures. " Larry Constantine is a software engineer and designer who pioneered the Structured Design approach to software development. When unexpected events occur, it is natural to feel stressed.

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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.

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7 Uncomfortable Truths for Project Managers

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Famously, software engineer and author Tim Lister said that: “Risk management is how adults manage projects.” But in the even less-certain new world of large-scale software development, that was looking increasingly difficult. A project manager needs to be present, to monitor and control your project.

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Project Delivery through the Definition of Done

Project Pulse Journal

This definition ensures transparency and quality control as features pass the development process. It may include coding, testing (unit, integration, system), documentation, design approvals, and any other conditions the team deems necessary in a software development project.

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What Makes Scrum Teams Effective? A scientific investigation of 1.200 Scrum teams

Scrum.org

Daniel is a Professor at the University of Aalborg and is specialized in empirical software engineering. I am an organizational psychologist and Scrum practitioner with a love for survey development and statistics. The dashed lines represent effects that we expected to find but were not present in the data.

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