Team Dynamics
The portion of the model, shown in Figure 57, is a very simplistic approximation of the effects of the practices…
The portion of the model, shown in Figure 57, is a very simplistic approximation of the effects of the practices…
Customer Involvement has some positive and some negative effects on our core APD rework cycle. What could be considered a…
As described in section 3.3.4, the Micro-Optimizing gene represents the adaptive nature of a given project’s development processes. In an…
As described above refactoring, refactoring is the work required to restructure the software baseline in order to pay off the…
To model the iterative and incremental nature of an Agile project, we must repeat the process described above in several…
The following section describes sections of the Agile Project Dynamics (APD) model pertaining to agile methods, and delves into the…
This chapter presents the Agile Project Dynamics (APD) model. Following the research into Agile methodologies and our formulation of the…
System Dynamics was famously used by Pugh-Roberts/PA Consulting to diagnose the causes of cost and schedule overruns on an Ingalls…
In one of the classic works of software project management, “The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering”, Fred Brooks…
The conventional view of a project is as a collection of predefined tasks. Based on a predetermined work rate (number…
Introduction to System Dynamics Dr. Jay W. Forrester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created System Dynamics in the 1960s.…
The Agile Manifesto values “customer collaboration over contract negotiation.” A more traditional way of doing things would be to lock-in…