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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. We’ll explore the scrum methodology in-depth, but before that, let’s start with a simple scrum definition.

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

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How team cognition helps us understand what cross-functionality should look like for Scrum teams. What team cognition looks like for Scrum teams, and what signs tell you whether it's there or not. So What Does This Mean For Scrum Teams? What does this mean for your Scrum Team?

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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Scrum Methodology. What It Is: Scrum is a short “sprint” approach to managing projects. The scrum methodology is It’s ideal for teams of no more than 10 people, and often is wedded to two-week cycles with short daily meetings, known as daily scrum meetings. It’s led by what is called a Scrum master.

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

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Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. You can observe implicit coordination in Scrum teams when you look at how work moves across a Scrum board, or on- and of the Sprint Backlog. This is also why the Scrum framework includes the Definition of Done.

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

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Considering just how popular the notion of fluid teams has become, I think it is important to weigh the evidence that supports it or contradicts it. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. A good analogy is to understand team cognition as muscle memory. Bradley et.

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Product Goal

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With the release of the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide, we now have Product Goals but what are they? 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. . See the Professional Scrum Product Owner book for more details. Product Samurai. Final thoughts.

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Comparing Nexus and SAFe - Similarities, Differences, potential synergies

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The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. In both SAFe/Scrum it is a self-managing team of self-managed teams with a couple of key roles at the team of teams level. . Scrum theory emphasizes Empiricism and Self-management, coupled with Flow in recent years.

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