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What are the focus areas of an Agile Coach?

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Who is an Agile Coach? Though, there is no universal definition of what is an Agile Coach. The first Agile Coaching Competency framework was developed by Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spaydback in 2011. The first Agile Coaching Competency framework was developed by Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spaydback in 2011.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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What is the business case for Agile teams? We think we do well to base our beliefs about Agile more on evidence. This post is our attempt to bring an evidence-based perspective to the business case of Agile teams. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

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There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. I quickly found hundreds of academic papers that investigated Scrum and Agile teams. So where do you find it? How to assess the quality of scientific research.

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Project Management Trends: 2018 Topics to Watch

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And yet, we had some significant shifts this year, most notably PMI releasing the sixth edition of “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge” ( PMBOK® Guide ), alongside the Agile Practice Guide. Blending Agile and Waterfall. But let’s look forward. The much-quoted PMI Talent Gap report states that 15.7

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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This is the motivation for short work intervals found in agile development. . Quantifying Uncertainty in Early Lifecycle Cost Estimation (QUELCE),” Robert Ferguson, Dennis Goldenson, James McCurley, Robert Stoddard, David Zubrow, and Debra Anderson, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-2011-TR-026 ESC-TR-2011-026. Eggstaff, Thomas A.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

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Little [8] makes the claim that agile methods don't follow the Cone - that is the uncertainty doesn't reduce as the project proceeds. A Quick Estimation Approach to Software Cost Estimation," Leckraj Nagowah, Hajrah BibiBenazir, and Bachun, African Conference on Software Engineering and Applied Computing , . "A

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

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Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. While some have publication dates that may seem old, the principles in these books are immutable, even for agile projects. Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006.