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

Scrum.org

Some find the process of creating them “childish” or “a waste of time”. This is the ability of team members to act in concert without explicit coordination (MacMillan, Entin & Serfaty, 2004). You can fast-track this process with good work agreements. Not everybody sees the value of work agreements.

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

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 book “Agile Project Management with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber (2004). The Scrum Guide” by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland (2011, 2013, 2016, 2017).

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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). I had been closely following up on the emergence and growth of Scrum.org as it coincided with a personal process of professional recovery. I experienced it as an expression of “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”.

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Gunther Verheyen

I looked for sources that are not just credible in terms of authorship but also offer regular enough check points.

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Test First approach sounds simply enough, right?

Scrum.org

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. The following is the sequence given in his book: -. Add a test. He found: -.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

5, September/October 2011. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 920, November 2004. 3 September 2004, Heiot Watt University, Association of Researchers in Construction Management , Vol. 3, March 2002. 255, April 2010.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

5, September/October 2011. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 920, November 2004. 3 September 2004, Heiot Watt University, Association of Researchers in Construction Management , Vol. 3, March 2002. 255, April 2010.