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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

Scrum has been around for a while, they say. The Scrum Guide holds the definition of Scrum, they say. The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? What else happened along the road to the way that Scrum is defined and represented?

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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). This is also why the Scrum framework includes the Definition of Done. You can read more about this here.

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Gunther Verheyen

Scrum has been around for a while, they say. The Scrum Guide holds the definition of Scrum, they say. The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? What else happened along the road to the way that Scrum is defined and represented?

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My life of Scrum (did not start with Scrum)

Gunther Verheyen

After a few years of searching and experimenting, “Scrum” was documented and presented to the general public. Scrum turns 25. I record a few highlights of “My life of Scrum”, a few aspects from the past 17 years of the life of an independent Scrum Caretaker. Later, we add Scrum to our approach.

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How I ended up becoming a (Professional) Scrum trainer

Gunther Verheyen

In October 2003 my life of Scrum started, albeit not with Scrum. My life of Scrum actually started with eXtreme Programming which we then wrapped in Scrum. In May 2004 I attended a CSM class (“Certified ScrumMaster”) by Ken Schwaber in Brussels (Belgium). It intrigued me. Go full throttle.

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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). 2009), include eXtreme Programming (XP) (Beck and Fowler, 2001) and Scrum (Schwaber and Beedle, 2002).

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., 2014), and Jugdev et al., There are more options available for correcting project work-related issues. REFERENCES Freudenberger, H. Staff burn-out. Haynes, N.S.,