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

Scrum.org

Many studies have identified high autonomy as an important prerequisite for Agile teams ( Moe, Dingsøyr & Dybå, 2010 ; Donmez & Gudela, 2013 ; Tripp & Armstrong, 2018 ; Melo et. In 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) (pp. 2013, June). Chow, T., & Cao, D.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Van Waardenburg & Van Vliet (2013) offer a case study in a large organization and conclude that “The Project Manager focuses on the ’how’ of a project, the Product Owner focuses on the ’what’”. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (pp. Beecham, S., Razzak, M.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

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. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.

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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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Software Estimating Resources

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“Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. 5, October 2013.

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Money is important, but it is not what drives me

Gunther Verheyen

We have three kids (2001, 2003, 2013) of which the two oldest (sons) have a disability ( Duchenne and Down Syndrome ). Money was not what drove my wife and I when I gave up my position as software engineer and aspiring project manager in favor of running a bookshop (1996). Let there be no misunderstanding: money is important.

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Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.