Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

What is Engineering Project Management? Engineering projects deal with the design, development, and implementation of processes or technologies; they can be executed in civil, mechanical, software, or electric engineering: e.g., designing buildings, creating new devices, implementing manufacturing automation systems, etc.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Thought-leaders often have a stake in promoting certain beliefs, so as to bring people to their classes, books, or products. 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. All these sources offer evidence.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 28, 2024

TL; DR: Agile Laws in Software Development On many occasions, working with agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. Your single best investment to improve your professional standing; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? edition ! ?

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Scrum.org

JULY 14, 2021

Daniel is a Professor at the University of Aalborg and is specialized in empirical software engineering. Please note that our paper is currently reviewed by academic peers. . Most of the books, podcasts, blog posts, and material that we find online have to do with this question. I then collaborated with Prof.

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Scrum.org

JULY 7, 2020

From the long list of observation, heuristics, and mental models in psychology, organizational design, or software engineering, I pick six “agile laws” that seem to be particularly relevant in this area of distributed agile teams: Conway’s Law. Agile Laws: Conway, Brooks, Hackman, Goodhart, Larman, and Parkinson. Brooks’s Law.

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Wrike

JULY 9, 2024

How can you ensure your software projects are delivered to brief and can adapt to unexpected challenges, user feedback, and market development? Project management systems for software development usually prioritize oversight, because that’s what managers need to lead projects effectively. The projects can be more complex.

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Scrum.org

MAY 17, 2022

We recently discussed a case on our community Discord that concerned a team without proper Sprint Reviews, stakeholders, and increments. But why wasn’t the strategy to show our teams how to do a proper Sprint Review, and to get as many stakeholders into the room as possible, and then reflect on what that was or wasn’t like together?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

One of the reviewers of this article, Maarten Dalmijn , noted that he missed “product discovery” as a core activity in the work by Bass (2018). The accountabilities listed there do feel more administrative than imaginative, even though the latter is emphasized in popular articles and books on Product Ownership. References.

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PM Basics

JULY 1, 2020

For sure, the easiest way to become a software project manager is by getting a promotion inside an IT company. 3 Top Reason to Become a Software Project Manager this Year. When you are aiming for the IT sector you must know SDLC: Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management. Yes, it is. Here are three main reasons: 1.

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Resource Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The bigger and busier your business gets, the harder it is to keep track of who’s booking who. Extra control for high-priority bookings Our Approval Workflow allows you to assign approvers for anyone on your team. It can also help you manage work allocations for external partners or freelancers that require a stricter booking process.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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Wrike

MARCH 4, 2015

So while you want to learn more about project management — either to pick up new skills or sharpen the ones you’ve already developed — you don’t have unlimited hours to read every book on the subject. Which project management books are best for your experience level? 23 Project Management Books for All Levels.

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Planio

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Step 10: Do your due diligence before you make the offer. Book extra one-on-ones in the first few months. Organize “show and tells” for engineers to show off what they’ve been building. Contract work: It’s usually a waste of time to give engineering candidates a code puzzle. If all goes well.

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PM Basics

MAY 16, 2022

So, it’s time for you to become a software project manager? Below you’ll find a full guide on how to become a software PM. TL;DR: The steps to becoming a software project manager. That’s an overall approach that will make you a software project manager. And let me warn you: It’s challenging to become a software PM.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

Ready to transform your approach to project management and software development? Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges. What are the Top 5 Agile Methodologies?

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Teamweek

APRIL 1, 2021

Many software tools help you capture, prioritize, and organize your work — from simple to-do lists to visual Kanban boards. It was developed by Dai Clegg, a software engineer, during his tenure at Oracle. Two straightforward ways are to order work by their due dates and by dependencies. Ready to get started, let’s begin.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Try Wrike for free Book a demo 4 challenges in healthcare projects (and how to overcome them) There are dozens of posts out there that try to apply a standard project management structure to a healthcare project. First, it means that healthcare projects often feel high-stakes.

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Leading Agile

MAY 25, 2023

Solid technical practices and your full-stack developer’s software craftsmanship are also limited by the conditions inside your organization. And so what we were talking about was the idea, on theme for the last couple of these recordings of, what are the necessary preconditions to be able to do software craftsmanship well?

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Before choosing a specific tool though, you need to decide on the type of project management software you need. And choosing from the many different project management software types can be quite a challenge. Types of project management software based on the use case. Project and resource planning software.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 8, 2016

That pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the premise behind the book. The book presents interesting case studies of pairs of companies where one has been successful and one hasn’t. Women in Science, Engineering and Technology. Comparing Companies. As it is, it’s a playbook for startups.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

Give due consideration to the power of effective communication and take the necessary measures to improve its quality. Here are the top books recommended by our survey participants: Industrial Megaprojects: Concepts, Strategies, and Practices for Success by Edward W. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

This is a recurring theme of #NoEstimates it's a waste to me the developer, I'd rather be coding , I'm not good at estimating , I see no value in my making estimating when you're just going to use them against me when I'm late and over budget. Root Cause: Productivity is the efficacy of the investment of time, talent, and money.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. Gano, Atlas Books, 2007. What factors lead to software project failure?”

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Planio

OCTOBER 18, 2019

You might think you’re just doing your due diligence, but there’s a point where that tips over into indecision. Supercharge your focus and time management with our massive Guide to Becoming a More Productive Software Engineer. In the book, Chris outlines a simple prioritization process he calls the Decision-Making Matrix.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. The MPUG activity code for claiming that with PMI is on the screen now. The Primary Steps to Take, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

customers is because it delivers the best artificial intelligence tools for project and task management, for a fraction of the cost of bespoke software engineering solutions. This has the benefit of extending basic coding abilities to people outside of the developer audience.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 8, 2017

But much has been done since then, and referring to the 1981 book is bad research method. Sizing Challenges," Victor Fuster & Taylor Putnam-Majarian, Software and IT-CASR Proceedings , 22-24 August 2017. Uncertainty in through-life costing-review and perspectives," Goh, Yee M., The original idea came in 1981.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 8, 2017

I work in a domain where systems are engineered for the customer. These systems fall into the Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) category. The notion that innovation and engineering - software engineering - are somehow in conflict is common. . In this domain innovative is also the basis of success.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. For those of you who are PMPs, your activity code today is on the screen. He co-authored with me the Agile chapter of the Step by Step book. Melanie: Hello.

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The second dimension represents the maturity levels based on the Capability Maturity Model developed by the Software Engineering Institute (one of the most popular and widely-accepted models of organizational maturity assessment). Lessons learned are reviewed regularly to improve project management activities.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. And money in the bank is what software development is about. There's only so much we can predict up front.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments. For software development starts with.

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Wrike

JUNE 1, 2023

To build your product management knowledge, you can read books, listen to podcasts, watch online webinars, and attend in-person events. If you are debating between the different product management certifications, there are some variables that you should review for each program.

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Planio

APRIL 16, 2020

As the authors of The Book of Life write : “Human beings are pathetically prone to distraction. Even the basic things around you—your phone, to-do list, notes, books—can become massive distractions. (In Conduct a monthly review of your workspace. And while many of these distractions need to be dealt with right away, most don’t.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. Please read the book in the previous sentence to see why this is critical and how it is done. Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Kyle: Today’s session is eligible for one PMI, PDU in the technical category, and the code for claiming that with PMI is on the screen now.

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