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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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Key Events and Books Agile Manifesto (2001): Defines the four key values and 12 principles of agile as defined by the software developers who created the document David Anderson successfully developed a kanban system for Microsoft XIT Sustaining Engineering Group (2004), which brought kanban from the factory floor to use in knowledge work globally (..)

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

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Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Estimating Software Costs: Bringing Realism to Estimating , Second Edition, Capers Jones, 2007. Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products , Jim Highsmith, Addison Wesley, 2004.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

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Why our brain is not built for software engineering. 2004) _How can we think the complex?Retrieved Although our brain is a marvel of evolution, it has not evolved to excel at the kind of knowledge work (Davenport, 2005) that we actually do most of the time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Clark, A. Being there.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L. Kirkeboen, G., &

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

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Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

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Misinterpretations of the “Cone of Uncertainty” in Florida during the 2004 Hurricane Season, Kenneth Broad, Anthony Leiserowitz, Jessica Weinkle, and Marissa Steketee, American Meteorological Society , May 2007. Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Each of these can be found with Google. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

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Paul Chavas, Elsevier Academic Press, 2004. Effective Opportunity Management for Project: Exploiting Positive Risk , David Hillson, Taylor & Francis, 2004. Software Engineering Risk Management: Finding your Path Through the Jungle, Version 1.0 , Dale Karolak, IEEE Computer Society, 1998.