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Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?

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Commonly used in engineering and software development, it’s a more structured approach because progress falls in one direction, like a waterfall, from ideation to launch. Design : There are two parts to this phase, including logical design and physical design, all resulting in the software or product architecture.

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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Kanban history has informed everything from manufacturing to software development. For those unsure what kanban is, we’ll first explain the kanban system and then go into kanban history from its development to its uses in manufacturing, project management and software development.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

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We can get philosophical on this and conclude that “evidence is a social construction” and “there is no objective truth”. 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. So where do you find it?

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What Makes Scrum Teams Effective? A scientific investigation of 1.200 Scrum teams

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Daniel is a Professor at the University of Aalborg and is specialized in empirical software engineering. I am an organizational psychologist and Scrum practitioner with a love for survey development and statistics. The theoretical model we constructed from the case studies and existing literature. Each core factor?—?except

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

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Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Why our brain is not built for software engineering. Nevertheless, the motto of software development is often ‘first solve the problem, then write the code’. Their article inspired me to apply the same insights to Scrum and to extend it with my own.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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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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How to Use nTask for Waterfall Project Management – A Practical Guide for First Timers

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Its simplicity and ease of implementation has made it the most popular version of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) for software engineering and IT projects. The origin of the Waterfall Model is often attributed to the manufacturing and construction industries. Background. Popularity of the Waterfall Model.