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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. For this purpose it defines three roles, a scrum master, a product owner and a development team, made up of several team members.

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Why Great (Scrum) Teams Have A Mind Of Their Own

Scrum.org

What team cognition looks like for Scrum teams, and what signs tell you whether it's there or not. What research in this area tells us about how you can design, support, and encourage teams to develop team cognition and become high-performing. From Individual Models To Team Mental Models.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

Research has linked team cognition to higher performance and motivation (Mathieu et al, 2000), increased effectiveness (Kearny, Gebert & Voelpel, 2009), and generally explains a substantial amount of the variance (~19%) in the effectiveness of teams (De Church & Mesmer-Magnus, 2010). It takes time to develop teams.

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What is Agile Project Management? (and how to implement it)

EasyProjects

If you follow the instructions to a tee, it’s going to taste fantastic – just like the reviews say. First, you must understand the Agile Manifesto and read the 12 principles outlined by the group that started agile in 2001. Make sure the team you choose is excited about using agile methodologies. In Review ?

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Project Success Assessment - A checklist for assessing the processes for project success.