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Five reasons why Scrum is not helping in getting twice the work done in half the time

Scrum.org

Scrum doesn’t help complete the product faster rather than how quickly a team can release a product. I worked as a product owner for my first product in 2007–08 to manage the insurance lifecycle for a major insurance company in America. They got training on Scrum, understood concepts, and formed teams, but struggle to commit.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

Scrum.org

A while ago, I received an interesting scientific article from Gunther Verheyen titled “Getting Things Done: The Science Behind Stress-Free Productivity” (Heylighen & Vidal, 2007). Their paper provides useful insights into why the Scrum Framework might be so effective when it comes to managing complex work.

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Money is important, but it is not what drives me

Gunther Verheyen

My work as an independent Scrum Caretaker via my one-person company Ullizee-Inc is the sole source of money for our family. Scrum is what I do for a living. Scrum is what I’ve been practicing for the past 20+ years. It wasn’t when we gave up on my wife’s income to allow her to develop her creative talents (2007).

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. Beyond Scrum , several Agile frameworks were developed to address the unique needs and challenges of projects and teams.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. 5 Oct 1990, Page 21.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

“Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. & Zein, S.,

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.