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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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We are entering the Deployment Phase of the Digital Age

Scrum.org

Of course, this list changes with the markets, but if you compare that to 2011, the list is 60% different. Scrum, agile thinking, modern software development working practices are synonymous with Digital Technology and have evolved out of the fundamentally different characteristics of the opportunity presented by technology.

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

Scrum.org

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. A quick note on who initiates membership changes. This corresponds with research on autonomous teams, as well as principles of Agile software development.

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

Scrum.org

Initially coined by Wason (1960), this bias manifests when we only look for confirmation of our beliefs. When organizations start initiatives or change programs and only see or look for evidence that supports the belief that it is working, but fail to see where it doesn’t work or even causes damage. Confirmation bias. Survival bias.

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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. 1, January 2011. "A

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The Complete Guide to Scaling Agile and SAFe for Business Agility

Agilemania

Initially focusing strictly on empowering teams to develop products and solutions faster and more efficiently, the tremendous success in doing business this way led to large enterprise-level organizations scaling the practice to meet their needs, even extending beyond the product organization. .

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

Herding Cats

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. A Correction fixed the immediate non-conformance. All for the want of a nail.

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