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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. We’ll explore the scrum methodology in-depth, but before that, let’s start with a simple scrum definition. The Scrum Framework.

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

Plus, we’ll get into scrumban, a combination of kanban with scrum. Scrum teams use pin boards with user story cards and during a sprint (short iteration working on tasks) each user story (tasks) is written on a card. These cards are the sprint backlog and are placed on a board for the scrum team to choose which user story to work on.

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From Project Management Professional (PMP)® to Professional Scrum Master

Scrum.org

Something was missing. For one or another reason I always went back to two small papers; a manifesto and a framework: the Manifesto for Agile Software Development ( [link] ), and the Scrum framework ( [link] ). While I was already using the Scrum framework since 2001, be it in a Zombie way, it was time to take agility dead seriously.

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20 Years of The Agile Manifesto

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Agile Manifesto date was 11-13 February 2001. Martin Steve Mellor Ken Schwaber Jeff Sutherland Dave Thomas © 2001, the above authors this declaration may be freely copied in any form, but only in its entirety through this notice. And if anything, the agile landscape is more fragmented now than it was back in 2001.

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Agile and Scrum: Unravelling the Misconceptions

Scrum.org

As Scrum.org trainers, we often come across common misconceptions from course attendees about Agile and Scrum. We tend to hear red flags of misalignment when we explore folk's current definitions and understanding of Agile and Scrum at the start of our courses. Agile eliminates the need for planning or documentation.

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The Powerful Connections between the Agile Manifesto and Scrum

Scrum.org

In the 1990’s, Scrum was one of a number of light methodologies that informed the creation of the manifesto for agile software development. The agile manifesto hasn’t changed since its creation in 2001. Scrum however, has been updated many times. Is the connection between the agile manifesto and scrum still there?

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Agile Principles - Effective Communication

Scrum.org

I have always interpreted this principle as a call to focus more on conversations and less on documentation. That is not to say that documentation does not have a place. Scrum requires certain minimal forms of documentation such as the Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog.

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