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Tracking the Value delivered in the agile world

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Tools to track the value delivered: How do we track the value delivered to the customer in the Value-driven delivery? Below are some of the ways to achieve the same: Kanban or Task charts Burn down charts Risk management and risk burn down charts. Earned value management Burn down charts: What are burndown charts? Burndown charts measure the work done by having the time represented on x-axis and the work to be done in the y-axis in a chart. You can measure them either using story points or hours as measuring units. The burn down chart depicts whether the team […]

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How to calculate value in value driven delivery

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The methods to calculate value: The value in monetary terms can be calculated using many terms: Simple schemes – rank the requirements from high to low. Present Value: The process of calculating the value today on future amount and can be calculated using the formula PV=FV/(1+i)n where PV = Present value, FV=Future Value, i=interest rate, n=number of periods. Internal rate of return (IRR): It is the discount rate at which the project revenues and project costs are equal. The project with the maximum IRR is selected. MoSCoW prioritization: This is based on the category prioritization where everything falls under any

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What is Shodan?

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Having a life without ‘Google’ is hard to imagine today. We would be lost without the popular search engine in our lives. The popular retort “Google it” is always on our lips for any query posed by anybody. While Google searches for web sites, there is another search engine that is slowly gaining prominence. This is ‘Shodan’. ‘Shodan’ is a search engine for ‘IoT’ or ‘Internet of things’. Internet of things or ‘IoT’: Before we start discussing ‘Shodan’ let us first explain ‘IoT’. Recall, that we have already discussed ‘IoT’ in an earlier post. ‘Internet of things’ can be defined

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DSDM – Principles and approaches abiding the principles

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Dynamic Software Development Method (DSDM) works with 8 principles basically abiding by its philosophy. The ultimate goal is the completed and successful project. Business requirements are the main focus Timely delivery Collaborate High Quality Standards Incremental approach in developing the software Develop iteratively Communicate continuously and clearly Good control on the overall process. DSDM follows the 4 processes to achieve the project objective abiding by its philosophy throughout. Feasibility Foundations Evolutionary developments Including the pre-project and the post project there are totally 6 phases in a project life cycle. Feasibility gives a nod on whether we should continue with the

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What is Web application Security – Part 3

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‘Web application security’ is part of the ‘Web component developer’ exam and we have already seen two posts relating to it. Recall, that we have already discussed the four authentication methods and the web resource collection element which is part of the authorization. We conclude the discussion of ‘Web application security’ by talking about the authorization constraint and user data constraint in this post. The different authorization constraints: Authorization is giving authenticated or unauthenticated roles access to restricted resources. Let us consider the first type of authorization constraint. Here, roles such as ‘Super user’ and ‘Normal user’ are allowed to

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Dynamic Software Development Method

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DSDM is a software development methodology which believes in abiding by the strategic goals of the project and delivering value to the customer early. Best practices proven successful over the years in the industry are recognised and recommended by DSDM in the agile software development world. DSDM is a vendor free methodology where the best practices prescribed can be applied using any tools and software. It builds quality into Rapid Application Development (RAD) approach by providing tested methodologies over the years. DSDM believes in something called as ‘Enough Design Up Front’ (EDUF) where the initial design is minimalistic and it

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Agile Software Development – Methodology

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The agile software development is an umbrella containing a set of methods and ways to achieve the principles mentioned under the Agile Manifesto. All these methodologies abide by the principles of frequent collaboration between the teams, frequent delivery to the client, self-motivation etc. The methodologies currently being followed are Extreme programming(XP) Dynamic System development method(DSDM) Scrum Agile modelling Agile unified Process Agile Data method Essential Unified Process(Ess UP) Feature Driven Development Open Unified Process(Open UP) Lean Software Development Crystal Methods. Selecting what methodology to use depends on what the project is. There should be a proper thought process on how

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Agile Software Development – Approach

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Agile development methodology – Approach In the Agile methodology, each project is broken up into several ‘Iterations’. All Iterations should be of the same time duration (between 2 to 8 weeks). At the end of each iteration, a working product should be delivered. For example, in the agile approach the project will be broken up into ‘N’ releases (assuming each iteration is set to last 4 weeks). Then the team will decide the basic core features that are required in the product and decide which of these features can be developed in the first iteration. Any remaining features that cannot be delivered

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Agile Software Development – Manisfesto

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Agile software development methodology is a process for developing software. This is a model where the software is developed in rapid and incremental mode. This is an alternative to traditional software development. The importance is given to the working software than the documentation. Every iteration ends in a working software which is a business value to the customer. The Agile Manifesto In February 2001, 17 software developers met at the Snowbird resort in Utah to discuss lightweight development methods. They published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, in which they said that by “uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others

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Godless’ Android malware

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‘Security’ aspects touch all our lives in some way or the other. We would have been victims of security hack at one time or other. Phishing emails, fake social media profiles, credit card fraud – some of these events may touch us in one way or the other. It is a good idea to prevent against these attacks by being up-to-date on the current Infosec incidents and knowing the ways to avoid them. With that thought in mind, we will discuss the ‘Godless’ malware in today’s post. Android devices: With mobile phone and device usage reaching unprecedented levels, it is

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