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Moving Your Scrum Downfield [Paper]

Gunther Verheyen

Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber moved the development of Scrum forward in the early 1990s. Ken Schwaber first documented Scrum in 1995 in the paper “ SCRUM Development Process.” In 2010 he initiated the creation of the Scrum Guide. They are the co-creators and gatekeepers of (what is) Scrum.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

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 ? This problem is visually depicted in the “cone of uncertainty” diagram which was initially conceived by Boehm. Steve McConnell.

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How Wrike’s Engineers Developed a Unique Quality Control System

Wrike

I joined the team as a QAA engineer in 2010, the first employee in this role. Together, we have developed a unique quality control system for Wrike, our lovely project management platform, allowing us to deploy product code to production more quickly and without bugs. Hello, everyone! I’m Alexander, and I’m a QAA manager at Wrike.

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

Herding Cats

AHP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Saaty. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. This decision model for software development projects addressed: performance, cost, time, and risk. I came to AHP through a seminar by Dr. James T. A Cardinal number says how many of something there is.

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What Makes A Developer Culture?

Scrum.org

Agile software development started with developers. Agile software development was started by developers. Starting out with a strong focus on website development, I built my first site for them in 2002, first as a freelancer later as an employee. We worked with .NET

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Product Management Considerations for Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

The role—whether project manager or product manager—depends on the specific goals and initiatives an organization aims to achieve, with each playing a vital role in moving projects forward, tracking progress, and driving product innovation. Sustainable living plan 2010 to 2020: Summary of 10 years’ progress.

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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 part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. What Is the Scrum Methodology? Scrum Values.

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