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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO Business Intelligence

Agile , which includes subvariants such as Lean and Scrum, is increasing in popularity and is being utilized in virtually every industry. Originally adopted by software developers, agile uses short development cycles called sprints to focus on continuous improvement in developing a product or service.

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Agile Does Not Need A Maturity Model - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Now theres nothing wrong with the article or some of the concepts, but I feel compelled to throw in my two cents on maturity models in general and especially applied to agile software development. In general, Ive only seen maturity models used in one way - to sell enterprise executives either software or services. software qa.

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Building with Shape Up

Crafty CTO

” Traditional agile, let’s say Scrum for example, looks a bit different: “OK dev team! As you might have noticed, Shape Up is all about sciencing the s**t out of every aspect of software development, and they did it again here. Shape Up tells us that It helps to shift the point of comparison.

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