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Take a More Agile Approach to Problem Solving

Your managers want you to estimate features or projects months or even years in advance. But the work changes—or the code changes, or the people on the project change. What you thought might be a reasonable estimate four weeks ago looks wacko when you revisit it in six months. What can you do?

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Johanna Rothman
How to (Not) Spend Big Data Dollars

A recent Gartner survey estimated that Big Data will spur $232 billion of spending through 2016 with the estimated spending areas to include services, training, manpower, and infrastructure. Brian Enochson looks at how the Big Data attention and money may (or may not) be applied in your business.

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Brian Enochson
Busting Agile Prediction Myths

When first hearing about agile processes, you might think that teams using an agile process cannot provide estimates, predictions, or commitments about what they will deliver. But, you can be agile and still manage risk and commit to a subset of what you predict.

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Scott Sehlhorst