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Strategic Project Management with System Dynamics
System Dynamics was famously used by Pugh-Roberts/PA Consulting to diagnose the causes of cost and schedule overruns on an Ingalls…
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Agile Project Management 5 min read
Brooks’ Law
In one of the classic works of software project management, “The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering”, Fred Brooks…
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The Rework Cycle
The conventional view of a project is as a collection of predefined tasks. Based on a predetermined work rate (number…
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System Dynamics and its Applicability to Software Project Management
Introduction to System Dynamics Dr. Jay W. Forrester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created System Dynamics in the 1960s.…
Agile Project Management 6 min read
Customer Involvement
The Agile Manifesto values “customer collaboration over contract negotiation.” A more traditional way of doing things would be to lock-in…
Agile Project Management 3 min read
Micro-Optimizing
This gene represents the adaptive nature of agile processes. We employ the term “Optimizing” because, in most agile methodologies, teams…
Agile Project Management 4 min read
Refactoring
An incremental and feature driven approach to the development of software systems can produce sub-optimal architectures compared to a waterfall…
Agile Project Management 3 min read
Waterfall/BDUF
Figure 14 depicts the flow of a classic Waterfall/BDUF approach: In the Analysis phase the requirements for the ATM system…
Agile Project Management 4 min read
Iterative-Incremental
Another principle of the Agile Alliance is to “deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple…
Agile Project Management 7 min read
Recent Experience with Scrum (2010-2011)
In 2010, a new opportunity to employ agile development presented itself: the FAA was seeking to upgrade their terminal ATC…
Business Analysis 2 min read
Major Roles of a BA
A key role of most business analysts is to liaison between the business and technical developers. Business analysts gets to…
Business Analysis 1 min read
Business Analysis – Roles
The role of a business analyst in an IT Project can be multi–fold. It is possible for project team members…
