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

Scrum.org

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. Why is that?

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Real Options and Decision Making for ICT Projects

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This is the same paradigm of Agile software development where responding to change over following the plan is part of the original manifesto. If you google "Real Options software development" or "real options ICT" you'll find these and many dozens more. Where there is a public link, it's included. Here's a sample.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2022

ProjectManager.com

Be Prepared for Project Management Trends in 2022 with This White Paper. What to Expect: Sessions focus on agility, software engineering and lean business. Agile Alliance, a global nonprofit membership organization founded on the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. 10th IPMA Research Conference.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. In all engineering worlds, from software engineering to bending metal for money, there is really nothing new under the sun. For software development starts with.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. And money in the bank is what software development is about. Traditional software development processes are like watchmaking.

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Software Estimating Resources

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Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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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.