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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

This is the ability of team members to act in concert without explicit coordination (MacMillan, Entin & Serfaty, 2004). This effect has been observed with flight crews (Orasuna, 1990), nuclear plant control crews (Waller, Gupta & Giambatista, 2004), and work teams (Urban et. Butchibabu, A., Sparano-Huiban, C., Sonenberg, L., & Shah, J.

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

The book “Agile Project Management with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber (2004). The Scrum Guide” by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland (2011, 2013, 2016, 2017). The book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (2002). The book “The Enterprise and Scrum” by Ken Schwaber (2007).

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Gunther Verheyen

In the end, the sources I used for describing the evolutions of the definition of Scrum are: The paper “SCRUM Software Development Process” by Ken Schwaber (1995, 1996) The paper “SCRUM: An extension pattern language for hyperproductive software development” by Mike Beedle, Martine Devos, Yonat Sharon, Ken Schwaber and Jeff (..)

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How I ended up becoming a (Professional) Scrum trainer

Gunther Verheyen

In May 2004 I attended a CSM class (“Certified ScrumMaster”) by Ken Schwaber in Brussels (Belgium). In April 2011, Ken came to Brussels for an event I co-organized for the Agile Consortium Belgium. In October 2003 my life of Scrum started, albeit not with Scrum. Still, nobody ever bothered to reimburse my costs.

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My life of Scrum (did not start with Scrum)

Gunther Verheyen

December 2011. We throw away all existing plans, create an ordered pile of User Stories, get together a great gang of developers, and go to work in iterations of 3 weeks. Later, we add Scrum to our approach. Scrum cannot be applied effectively without clear and agreed development practices and standards in place.

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Test First approach sounds simply enough, right?

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The reason in 2011, Gojko Adzi introduce a different name to group these practices - “ Specification by Example ". Behaviour-Driven Development (est 2004). In 2004, the next discovery for Dan was the concept of business value and why we write software. Test-Driven Development 2.0 (est He found: -.

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Chess and Business Strategy

International Institute for Learning

In order pursue this task, engineers in the USA developed the 787 Dreamliner (introduced in 2011, 224-330 passengers seats versions), with a carbon-composite fuselage (lighter material than aluminium), equipped with two engines and able to fly longer distances while consuming less jet fuel than the A380. Economic Policy 21, 313– 358.

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