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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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Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management

PM Basics

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. When I googled “software development life cycle definition” I found different variants. Phases in Software Development. Concept Development.

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

Scrum.org

Adoption of different methods and practices in Japan ( "DX White-Paper Executive Summary" Information-Technology Promotion Agency p11 ) Japanese culture Japanese businesses have a strong desire to avoid risk and minimize unexpected events. The first one is that the Japanese people are too risk-averse to ever dare embrace agility.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. reducible and irreducible ?

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The Agile Feature-driven Development Methodology

The Strategic Project Manager

Feature Driven Development (FDD) is an agile methodology specifically applied to software development. What Is the Agile Feature-driven Development Methodology? Feature-driven Development (FDD) is one of several agile methodologies or approaches (some other popular ones include Scrum , XP , DSDM, and Crystal ).

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. An aleatory risk is expressed as a relation to a value.

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