cPrime Inc., a project management and Agile services company, expands their agile consulting & coaching services and reaches new industries in the Bay Area.

Foster City, CA. July 28th 2011 – cPrime, a project management and agile services company hits new milestones with the development of their Agile coaching and consulting services. This year, cPrime has doubled the number of clients they are working with on Agile projects. The main reason for the swift development is due to their private offering of the Enterprise Agile Development with Scrum (EAD) course. Kevin Thompson, a cPrime senior Agile coach, has been working to develop Agile training materials and offerings such as the EAD course, while he works hands-on with organizations attempting to make the transition to Agile development.

cPrime has coached over 30 organizations in Agile development methodology in the past two years in over 10 different industries. Their success with these organizations comes from the hands on, practical knowledge they teach their clients. Many companies attempt to transition to the Agile methodology, but often do not succeed. To learn the scrum processes successfully & make scrum work in an organization, especially at a large scale, organizations need the hands on guidance from expert agile coaches. Agile coaches can transition teams by mentoring them through complicated processes like meetings, sprints, estimation, etc. that may seem foreign to Project Managers familiar with traditional plan-driven processes such as Waterfall. Coaches also can advise executives and stakeholders on what changes to expect with the new Agile processes.

When to Use Scrum for software projects?

Scrum is a lightweight agile process framework used primarily for managing software development.

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In these series of videos, Dr. Kevin Thompson will teach you how to provide good estimates for your projects quickly, using some best practices in expert estimation. These techniques are used widely in the software industry, especially for Agile projects, but they are useful for any kind of project in any industry.

Since the problem of uncertainty is critical for any estimation process, we examine how uncertainty limits our ability to make accurate estimates. We see that uncertainty is related to scope and understand how uncertainties accumulate over time. With this information, we understand better why our techniques for estimation have been designed as they are.

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