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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

Scrum.org

This is an advantage because complex product development usually requires close, trust-based collaboration between people with different skills and perspectives. In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking. They are respectful in conversations and are good listeners.

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What is IT Service Management?

The IIL Blog

Most of these roles were based on aspects of IT operation, such as mainframe operation and maintenance, which later evolved into software development and commercialisation. As governments and organisations began to utilise IT to run their organisations, the concepts of ‘services’ began to evolve.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Accuracy - how close is the estimate to the actual value? Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Nord, CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , May/June 2013.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

MPUG

Having spent half my life in the commercial space and half in the government space, the questions are always there. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs. I got junior software engineers, software engineers, senior software engineers. Is it Fletcher?

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Economics of Software Development

Herding Cats

Underestimating software engineering costs could result in management approving proposed systems that potentially exceed budget allocations, or underdeveloped functions with poor quality, or a failure to complete a project on time. Managing in the presence of uncertainty requires a Closed Loop Control process. No Estimates?

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Infrastructure & Platform Management

Alan Parker Blog

Here are key relationships with other practices: Architecture Management Infrastructure management works closely with architecture management to ensure that all infrastructure solutions are aligned with the organisational policies and standards. Since 2016, he has been a sought-after consultant in IT governance and project management.

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Two Parallel Processes of Project Success - Both Value and Delivery are Needed

Herding Cats

For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis. Decision making about tangible outcomes in the presence of scarce resources.

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