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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is a simple project management framework that facilitates team collaboration on complex product and software development projects.

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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are some high-profile failed projects: Following an internal review, Multiplex, the Australian development company responsible for the reconstruction of the Wembley Stadium, became aware that costs for the project were escalating to the point that the company would make a loss of £750 million on the project. billion to £10.9

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Why Agile Engineering Practices in Software Development Are Essential to Achieve Agility

Scrum.org

In the Oxford Diary, the word agility is defined as the ability to move quickly and easily. This works as a metaphor for defining the scope of a project, and have teams work in short iterations in which they deliver each planned feature as quickly as possible, and then move on to the next. Which I think is unfortunate.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

What defines fluid and stable teams? Kozlowski & Ilgen (2006) describe this reciprocity as “process begets structure, which in turn guides process”. Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. Bradley et.

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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It touched on the classic reasons for project failures – poor sponsorship and so on – but also focused on how we define failure on projects. For more up-to-date software reviews, see my complete list here. In case you’ve only just stumbled across this blog, in 2021 I celebrated 15 years of blogging about project management.

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Best agency project management software: 10 tools to short-list today – Part 5

Resource Guru

Between tabs, color codes, and comments, the time spent on admin is valuable time that could be spent (actually) enabling project success. We’re here to help you evaluate and choose the best software that will help enable growth at your agency. Far too many agencies are still using spreadsheets to manage high-stakes projects.

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

Scrum.org

And does your Sprint Review consist of team members listing their individual accomplishments? It defines Scrum teams as “a cohesive unit of professionals focused on one objective at a time, the Product Goal”. Often, Scrum teams are defined simply by putting a random group of people together. What are cohesion and coherence?

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