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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). However, today the principles of agile have spread to other corporate functions such as innovation.

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

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. This is the ability of team members to act in concert without explicit coordination (MacMillan, Entin & Serfaty, 2004). Analysis of fault generation caused by stress during software development. Springer, Boston, MA. Kearney, E.,

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004. The Project Management Institute approach has been to bring more agile into the main guide, and to publish it alongside the Agile Practice Guide. The PRINCE2 guidance is not specifically agile , but it could be adapted to be so. Well, thank you!

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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 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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Agile Movers & Shakers (6): The Liberators Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem. If so, you can subscribe here and join 26k agile peers. The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview with The Liberators Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem. What brought you to ‘agile?’. Christiaan : A friend of mine started a software company.

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Agile Leadership Toolkit - new book

Scrum.org

Early September a new book will be added to the Professional Scrum Series : Agile Leadership Toolkit - by Peter Koning. We live in uncertain times created by the move from the age of mass production to the digital or software age. Agility is turning the world upside down. Agile leadership is the future.

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Test First approach sounds simply enough, right?

Scrum.org

If you’re not already aware, the way you think of testing within an agile approach is fundamentally different to the traditional one. But Kent, and others, found that writing test first had a tremendous positive effect on the software architecture and design of software too: Testable. Behaviour-Driven Development (est 2004).