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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is a simple project management framework that facilitates team collaboration on complex product and software development projects.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. When to Use It: The practice originated in software development and works well in that culture. Get work management software that fits with every methodology.

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Introduction to Jira

MPUG

Jira’s inception traces back to April 2002, birthed by Atlassian, a company founded by two Australian friends, Mike Cannon-Brooks and Scott Farquhar. Today, in 2023, Jira stands as arguably the most preferred project management software globally. Within just three years of its launch, Jira already had 1,000 customers.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

Scrum.org

Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Why our brain is not built for software engineering. It is a mental process and a limited mental resource (Ashcraft, 2002). So, answering your mail and writing some code at the same time is going to decrease productiveness. waterfalls) are very likely to fail.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). 2009), include eXtreme Programming (XP) (Beck and Fowler, 2001) and Scrum (Schwaber and Beedle, 2002).

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A Quick Guide to Business Process Mapping

ProjectManager.com

There’s also compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 , also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002. Manage Process: Now the process must be maintained and stored, but also reviewed routinely as well as monitoring the process for changes. Types of Business Process Maps.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

2001 ) and proactive behavior ( LePine, Erez & Johnson, 2002 ). “So So we went to Google Scholar and searched for review articles. 2010) reviewed 28 scientific studies that investigated how Scrum is associated with overall business outcomes. SCRUM and productivity in software projects: a systematic literature review.

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