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Embracing Uncertainty: Rethinking Project Timelines in Agile Environments

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Creating an Illusion of Control in Fixed Deadlines Complex projects (software development) inherently involve variables that can change rapidly, like requirements, priorities, and even unexpected obstacles. Rushing Decisions and Compromising Quality Imagine a software development team that encounters evolving requirements mid-project.

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Agile Organisations: Unleashing the Potential of Value Streams

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Value Streams Agile revolutionized more than just software development, quickly gaining traction with other business units such as legal, finance, and marketing. Co-creating a Value Stream Operating Model Co-creation involves collaborative workshops where we design the operating model together. This is surprisingly common.

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Risk Breakdown Structure for Projects: A Complete Guide to RBS

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For example, software development might have product engineering, development environment and program constraints. Software Development Risk Breakdown Structure Example. An example of a software development RBS. In general, these top-line risk identification categories include: Schedule. Management.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2022

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What to Expect: Industry innovators help professionals be more productive, and learn best practices, skills and strategies to succeed with over 25 educational sessions and four hands-on workshops. There will be plenary sessions, presentations of papers, inactive workshops, round tables and more. Attendees can earn up to 18 PDUs.

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From Project Management Professional (PMP)® to Professional Scrum Master

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Something was missing. For one or another reason I always went back to two small papers; a manifesto and a framework: the Manifesto for Agile Software Development ( [link] ), and the Scrum framework ( [link] ). We have some scheduled in the coming period. Don't want to miss any of these blog posts?

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Decision Making On Software Development Projects

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Decision Making on Software Development Projects Is Both Simple and Complex at the Same Time. Oberkampf, in Proceedings from the Advanced Simulation & Computing Workshop , Albuquerque, NM, USA, 2005. All projects operate in the presence of uncertainty. Real-world decision making is performed under uncertainty. 91–94, 1996.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.