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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? How did its definition evolve before and after 2010 and become the framework that we know today? The book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (2002).

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

Scrum.org

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). Butchibabu and her colleagues (2016) performed an experiment with 13 teams.

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Gunther Verheyen

The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? How did its definition evolve before and after 2010 and become the framework that we know today? The Scrum Guide holds the definition of Scrum, they say.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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2010) reviewed 28 scientific studies that investigated how Scrum is associated with overall business outcomes. Several empirical studies have indeed found that teams with a frequent delivery strategy are more likely to deliver successful project outcomes and satisfy stakeholders than teams that do not ( Chow & Cao, 2008 , Jørgensen, 2016 ).

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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“Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). Fixed price without fixed specification,” Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory, 15 March 2016. Better Sure than Safe?

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Software Estimating Resources

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Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.