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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? What else happened along the road to the way that Scrum is defined and represented? The book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (2002). The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

It stresses accountability and is an iterative progress towards a well-defined goal. For this purpose it defines three roles, a scrum master, a product owner and a development team, made up of several team members. This expanded vision can be very helpful to further define the scrum team’s objectives. Scrum Roles. Scrum History.

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A Quick Guide to Business Process Mapping

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That begins with defining the business, how it does business and who is doing what in the business. Business process mapping means defining what a business does, who is responsible for what, what is the standard for completing that process, what tools will be used and how the success of the business is determined.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

2009), include eXtreme Programming (XP) (Beck and Fowler, 2001) and Scrum (Schwaber and Beedle, 2002). On this regard, as pointed our by Ted Levitt (2002), a former editor of Harvard Business Review and one of the most incisive commentators on innovation, it has to be stressed that Ideation and Innovation are not synonyms. Kerzner, H.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

Schwaber formed the Scrum Alliance in 2002, a certified scrum accreditation series. Processes can be defined and improved. It became a part of agile when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” in 2001. There is also a Lean Six Sigma that adds lean methodology to eliminate waste.

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Gunther Verheyen

So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? What else happened along the road to the way that Scrum is defined and represented? The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. How did its definition evolve before and after 2010 and become the framework that we know today?

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

Scrum.org

Before we begin, we need to define some of the terms we will use throughout this post. Throughout this post, we define them as “all users, customers, and other people or groups who have a clear stake in the outcomes of what this team produces, and invest money, time or both in making sure that happens”. The first term is Stakeholder.

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