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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

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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. For this purpose it defines three roles, a scrum master, a product owner and a development team, made up of several team members.

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

Scrum.org

Scientists call this shared understanding team cognition. It has been linked to higher performance and motivation (Mathieu et al, 2000), increased effectiveness (Kearny, Gebert & Voelpel, 2009), and generally explains a substantial amount of the variance (~19%) in the effectiveness of teams (De Church & Mesmer-Magnus, 2010).

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

Scrum.org

Research has linked team cognition to higher performance and motivation (Mathieu et al, 2000), increased effectiveness (Kearny, Gebert & Voelpel, 2009), and generally explains a substantial amount of the variance (~19%) in the effectiveness of teams (De Church & Mesmer-Magnus, 2010). It takes time to develop teams.

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Why Great (Scrum) Teams Have A Mind Of Their Own

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What team cognition looks like for Scrum teams, and what signs tell you whether it's there or not. What research in this area tells us about how you can design, support, and encourage teams to develop team cognition and become high-performing. Pictures of a session where we created a skill matrix with a team.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. It became a part of agile when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” in 2001.

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Sequencing Product Backlog

MPUG

If those features are weighed according to their potential revenue or cost savings upon completion, then one can assess the value of the WIP inventory using a dollar as the flow unit. First, the development team can only work on one feature at a time. However, some features may be more important or valuable than others.

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Product Goal

Scrum.org

Well, they are not new, lets take a trip down memory lane to the year 2009 and the book “The Toyota Kata” by Mike Rother. . Development teams and stakeholders can “see” how they connect. Try aligning your Product Goals with quarterly business reviews. SMART , IVEST , whatever is your favorite.

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