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Category: Defining Success

Is Your Software Development Team Set Up for Failure?

Is Your Software Development Team Set Up for Failure?

A common concern keeping CIOs up at night: Am I getting the best RPM out of my team? Often the answer is no.

You Guys Start, We’ll Figure This Out Later

You Guys Start, We’ll Figure This Out Later

Learn how this simple phrase could be the main warning sign that your project is in danger before you even start.

The Attitude of Estimation

The Attitude of Estimation

Learn how to overcome the biggest obstacle any team has to getting consistent estimates — our attitude towards estimates.

What Abbott & Costello Can Teach Us About Software Requirements

What Abbott & Costello Can Teach Us About Software Requirements

How recognizing “Spellcheckers” can decrease ambiguity around details and increase project success.

How to Turn a WAG (Wild-Ass-Guess) Into a SWAG (Scientific-Wild-Ass-Guess)

How to Turn a WAG (Wild-Ass-Guess) Into a SWAG (Scientific-Wild-Ass-Guess)

Learn how to put the S — the science — back in a WAG so even an off-the-cuff estimate can be meaningful and useful to your audience.

Estimating Without Fear: How To Do Away With Padding and Still Come Out Looking Like a Hero

Estimating Without Fear: How To Do Away With Padding and Still Come Out Looking Like a Hero

When your team puts together an estimate, does it command a sense of confidence, trust and respect from those reviewing the estimate?

The Biggest Management Lie You'll Ever Hear: "I Won't Hold You To It"

The Biggest Management Lie You’ll Ever Hear: “I Won’t Hold You To It”

The next time management says I need an estimate but I won’t hold you to it, call them out on it!

Software Requirements: Are The Business People With You?

Software Requirements: Are The Business People With You?

Get everyone in the room to face the challenge of gathering accurate software development requirements. A survey of IT Leaders sheds light on the challenges.

Changing the Conversation on Software Requirements: Collaboration in the IT Team

Changing the Conversation on Software Requirements: Collaboration in the IT Team

By working together to create software requirement documents, the IT team can deliver exactly what the business needs.

Changing the Conversation on Software Requirements: The Role of Business and IT

Changing the Conversation on Software Requirements: The Role of Business and IT

Creating more or “better” software requirements documents is not the silver bullet in achieving successful project results.