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A Beginner’s Guide to Scrum Ceremonies

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The secret to scrum is simplicity, even in the face of complexity. And although scrum is simple at heart, it can be difficult to master. Scrum requires self-organizing teams that can quickly solve problems in unpredictable environments. Scrum ceremonies are meetings that are unique to scrum teams. Daily Scrum.

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The 18 Most Influential People in Project Management

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Mike Cohn is a well-recognized author and expert on agile and Scrum project management topics, and the owner of a large and engaged Twitter account with over 42,000 followers. Bernardo Tirado. Bernardo Tirado is an industrial psychologist and Six Sigma Black Belt, with an impressive verified Twitter following of over 48,000. Pawel Brodzinski.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

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The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Don't hear one?

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My Journey as a Scrum Master

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The first part contains my personal journey in becoming a Scrum Master, the second part includes recommendations for new Scrum Masters. Part 1 — Becoming a Scrum Master. Nine years ago I changed my title from Project Manager into Scrum Master. Do you have any recommendations for my Scrum Master journey?”.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Deciding how much precision and accuracy is needed for a credible estimate is critical to the success of that decision.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

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Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. How that is supposed to happen is nowhere described in the Scrum Guide.

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Process Reduces Agility? Only on De Minimis Projects

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Scrum, Kanban, even eXtreme Programming are used, guided by higher level directives like the National Defense Authorization Act Section 804 which says. Agile Development of Safety-Critical Software , Matti Vuori, Tampre University of Technology, 2011. In this domain today, Agile processes are the basis of engineering those systems.

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