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

Scrum.org

Some find the process of creating them “childish” or “a waste of time”. Note that we’re using functional job titles here for clarity; not all companies use them, and the Scrum Guide only talks about “developers”. You can fast-track this process with good work agreements. References. And there is some truth to that.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

Scrum.org

There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. References in academic papers are also a good source. Academic authors usually explicitly reference where their ideas or claims come from.

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

Scrum.org

But adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility. Adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility.”. I prefer a process-based definition of agility. Although we used Scrum teams for our investigation, these processes are generic enough to apply to Agile teams in general.

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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. Even a single change in team membership can disrupt that process, and consequently, make it harder for teams to become high-performing sooner. The need for fluid teams.

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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. This uncertainty is modeled as a stochastic process of an inherently random physical model. Now To Risk Management.

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Picking a Project Management Methodology

MPUG

The following are examples of factors from the PMBOK Guide that lead to said project’s creation: Business process improvements. Software development. Even if you do not have defined model in place, you probably have some processes that could be used as part of your selected methodology. Competitive forces. New Technology.

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