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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art , Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press, 2015.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Why a Majority of Business and IT Teams Anticipate Their Software Development Projects Will Fail. Project Management Institute: Pulse of the Profession 2015: Capturing the Value of Project Management 2015. Capterra Project Management User Research Report 2015. ESI International: Annual Salary Survey 2013.

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How to do Rolling Wave Planning

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time. Rolling wave planning, also known as progressive elaboration, is an iterative planning technique to use when it’s difficult (or pointless) to schedule too far ahead.

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What is Visual Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In a software development organization they increased productivity by more than 500% and achieved 100% release date achievement. In a new product development process, FMC Technologies tripled engineering productivity and reduced lead time by 70%. A version of this interview first appeared on this site in 2015.

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Let’s flatten five agile fallacies!

Kiron Bondale

In 2015 I wrote an article intending to debunk some common myths about project management. The Manifesto for Agile Software Development is a curation of specific software delivery values and principles. Make it a goal unto itself and the downstream impacts might result in worse outcomes than your current state.

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Accounting for Software Development - Products or Projects

Herding Cats

I’m going to suggest that most of the disconnects around ideas of software development ‒ from No Estimates to No Projects to whatever ‒ starts with Developers and the assumption It’s their money. The whole FASAB for federal government guide for 2015 ‒ [link]. It’s not their money. FASB 86 ‒ [link].

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In-Depth: The Science On Sustainable Pace, Stress, And Motivation

Scrum.org

Clinical burnout is a very severe condition that can put people out of work for the rest of their lives and is often indistinguishable from clinical depression (Bianchi, Schonfeld & Laurent, 2015). A completely stress-free environment is unlikely, and will also become very boring quickly (Mael & Jex, 2015). References. Bianchi, R.,