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Money is important, but it is not what drives me

Gunther Verheyen

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). It wasn’t when I decided to go completely independent with my one-person company Ullizee-Inc (2016) and not be part of any fixed structure for the time being (which is to this date).

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

Scrum.org

Several empirical studies have indeed found that teams with a frequent delivery strategy are more likely to deliver successful project outcomes and satisfy stakeholders than teams that do not ( Chow & Cao, 2008 , Jørgensen, 2016 ). SCRUM and productivity in software projects: a systematic literature review. C., & da Silva, F.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (pp. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (pp. Beecham, S., Noll, J., & Razzak, M. Beecham, S., Razzak, M. N., & Noll, J. 2018, May). 123–124). Springer, Cham.

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Unintended consequences of metrics

Musings on Project Management

In the online "Cross Talk -- Journal of Defense Software Engineering" for Sept Oct 2016 there is a an article entitled "Positive Influences and Unintended Consequences" by Rob Ashmore and Mike Standish of the U.K.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

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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Infrastructure & Platform Management

Alan Parker Blog

They ensure that all hardware, software, networks, and facilities are optimised and effectively support service delivery and business operations. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Site reliability engineers focus on automating the infrastructure processes to enhance reliability and performance.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

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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