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In-Depth: How Coherence And Cohesion Are Critical To Scrum

Scrum.org

It defines Scrum teams as “a cohesive unit of professionals focused on one objective at a time, the Product Goal”. A bit further, it defines Sprint Goals as something that “creates coherence and focus, encouraging the Scrum team to work together rather than on separate initiatives”. What are cohesion and coherence? References.

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Test First approach sounds simply enough, right?

Scrum.org

In 2003, Dan North created the JBehave framework to replace Junit to remove any reference to testing and replace a testing vocabulary around a behave one. Dan and his colleagues used similar concept to come up defining a ubiquitous language for the analytics process itself, hence when the Given, When, Then for acceptance criteria came.

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Managing Projects in Education: Specific Challenges and Ways of Addressing Them

Epicflow Blog

To be able to answer this question, let’s run back to one of the definitions of project management: it’s defined as “ the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints ” [1]. Let’s look into the matter. . Why Do Educational Institutions Need Project Management? Improper planning. References .

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

The adaptation of these principles to software development began to take shape in the 1990s, notably influenced by the work of Tom and Mary Poppendieck, who published "Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit" in 2003.

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Understanding Risk Breakdown Structure

Wrike

According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), a project risk is defined as “an uncertain event that, if it occurred, has an effect on at least one project objective.” . One tragic example that illustrates the importance of proper risk assessment is the space shuttle Columbia, which was destroyed upon re-entry from orbit in 2003.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

From the mechanical perspective, change is defined in terms of modifications to structures and processes. Grawitch, Munz & Kramer (2003) demonstrated experimentally that groups with positive moods tend to generate more original ideas than groups in a negative mood (12% of the variance was explained by mood alone). Grawitch, M.

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A Short History of Project Management

MPUG

This model is well suited for medium to large size projects that have well defined requirements. I first learned about the Agile model around 2003. Agile approaches are a response to the need to modernize project management for small scale projects where clients have difficulty defining requirements. Boy, I was wrong!

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