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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. 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

It may suffice to move an item on the Scrum Board or Kanban Board to “Done” or “Ready for Review”, although a verbal statement is probably clearer for teams where the Scrum Board isn’t visible all the time. This ties closely into research on team cognition and cross-functionality. Closing words. Butchibabu, A.,

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

Scrum.org

The need for fluid teams. The notion of fluid teams has been around for a long time, mostly in aviation, healthcare, and the armed forces. Bushe and Chu (2011) identify seven situations that drive the use of fluid teaming in those environments: High turnover among employees, leading to changes in teams. Bradley et.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

They offer practitioners tools to extend and mature their agility beyond the team to programs and the broader enterprise. DA was developed in 2011 by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines and is based on Scott’s work at Rational Software and IBM. They are closed books, online, and self-proctored.

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Benefits of Scaled Agile Framework ( SAFe®) – Agilemania

Agilemania

The year was 2011 and there was a pressing need for a scaling framework that could help large organizations design efficient systems to build enterprise level products/solutions to cater to customer’s rapidly changing needs. Finally, let’s cut the suspense and closely at the common reasons to use SAFe. How SAFe Benefits Organizations.

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The Project Communication Plan

MPUG

The legal department gets involved only to work on contracts or to review documents for legal issues. For example, vendors, suppliers, partners, and the project managers who work for them can belong to your core team. The information that you communicate varies depending on whether you’re planning, executing, or closing the project.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Project Success Assessment - A checklist for assessing the processes for project success.