Scrum.org

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In the end, the sources I used for describing the evolutions of the definition of Scrum are: The paper “SCRUM Software Development Process” by Ken Schwaber (1995, 1996). The book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (2002). The book “Agile Project Management with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber (2004).

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2010 SCRUM 2004 2002 231

Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

We’re honored to republish this blog post ‘Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing’ by Andrea Fryrear which was originally published in the Agile Sherpas blog! But, for teams that chafe under the strictures of the Scrum process, Kanban can be a freeing alternative. Make Process Policies Explicit.

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Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 110

Digite

JANUARY 2, 2017

Since the arrival of Scaled Agile Framework in the world market, there have been comparisons ad nauseum between the Scrum and SAFe frameworks. Many industry experts have come out and pointed possible flaws in the Scaled Agile Framework. However, the Scaled Agile Framework indeed subscribes to the ethos of the Agile manifesto.

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Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We have three kids (2001, 2003, 2013) of which the two oldest (sons) have a disability ( Duchenne and Down Syndrome ). It wasn’t when I abandoned a position of Principal Consultant and a future higher-up the ladder function at a large international consulting company (2013). Let there be no misunderstanding: money is important.

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Project Bliss

APRIL 18, 2017

Dave’s book will put you ahead of these data conversion risks with guidance on each step of the process. In 2013 he wrote a series of blog posts on data conversion that were created “in response to various requests from colleagues, customers, and project teams for more detailed information.” He explains that’s how the book started.

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Software Review 2013 Risk Management Risk 202

Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2022

The neurological processes for this are also well-understood. It is also the reason why the principles of the Agile Manifesto can create such motivating environments. al, 2013), healthcare professionals (Papathanasiou et. 2013), and in the workplace (Manganelli, Thibault-Landry & Forest, 2018). Source: Wikipedia. .

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Van Waardenburg & Van Vliet (2013) offer a case study in a large organization and conclude that “The Project Manager focuses on the ’how’ of a project, the Product Owner focuses on the ’what’”. When agile meets the enterprise.

2014 210

2014 2008 Technical Review 2019 210

Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In the end, the sources I used for describing the evolutions of the definition of Scrum are: The paper “SCRUM Software Development Process” by Ken Schwaber (1995, 1996) The paper “SCRUM: An extension pattern language for hyperproductive software development” by Mike Beedle, Martine Devos, Yonat Sharon, Ken Schwaber and Jeff (..)

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2010 SCRUM 2004 2002 141

Project Management Essentials

AUGUST 3, 2019

Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense. They can quickly assess the health of an agile project or team just as doctors do with their patients. In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scrum team is in trouble. Agile is based on Systems Thinking.

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Underperforming Technical Team Agile Technical Review Software Review 40

Gunther Verheyen

JANUARY 27, 2021

In April 2010, at an event of the Agile Consortium Belgium in Brussels, I asked Jeff Sutherland about this new organization founded by his former companion. I had been closely following up on the emergence and growth of Scrum.org as it coincided with a personal process of professional recovery. I remember a Wednesday in March 2013.

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Resource Guru

JULY 28, 2022

But you can control how you account for these factors in your planning process. A shift to the Agile method Stay on top of resource capacity in 2022 and beyond with comprehensive planning software Related Resource Guru content: 1. A shift to the Agile method. Solution: Try agile capacity planning.

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2022 Planning Software Review 2021 98

Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2020

During the Ebola outbreak 2013-2016, people exhibited anxiety-invoked behavior to a large extent. Research concluded, this happened for at least six reasons [2]: Fear and stress interfere with cognitive processing. Agile processes help you to establish a high level of transparency. Which is true for most of us right now.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2020 Technical Review 2016 152

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 11, 2024

It's more than just meeting deadlines—it's about aligning your projects with strategic objectives and maximizing their impact, thus supporting the business value creation process through projects. But how exactly can you harness or manage the value-creation process in your projects? What is Value Creation?

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Innovation Sustainability Monitoring Risk Management 52

Gunther Verheyen

APRIL 24, 2020

Ken Schwaber first documented Scrum in 1995 in the paper “ SCRUM Development Process.” Having authored the books Scrum – A Pocket Guide (2013, 2019) and 97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know (2020) I took a step back to consider what it is that makes Scrum work. In 2010 he initiated the creation of the Scrum Guide.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 26, 2020

MSP 2013 and 2016 ran on Windows 7 or 8. MSP 2013 contained a major upgrade (for example, all the text reports were replaced with graphical reports), and MSP 2016 and 2019 (running under Windows 10) included minor upgrades. Professional is a comprehensive management solution with a permanent license. However, there are no updates.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

"There's no predictability/commitment in Agile/Scrum". Product Management keeps telling me in this Agile way of doing things there is no committed scope, no plan, only 'Responding to change'. Why didn't I just say "Agile/Scrum provides great predictability" and get it over with? Back to the roots. Let's make it clear up front.

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Underperforming Technical Team Risk SCRUM Executing 128

The IIL Blog

JULY 19, 2023

The wage and salary activities for the assigned workers were the responsibility of their functional managers and project managers often had very little input if any in the performance review processes. Engagement activities do not end at the completion of the staffing process or shortly thereafter. Mar 2013, Vol. Jan2023, Vol.

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2002 2023 Leadership 2007 78

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 3, March 2002.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 38

Gunther Verheyen

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I don’t remember when it was exactly, but it was when smart businessmen assumed it was better for sales, as commonly used terms like methodology or process got burned. Today, the word is omnipresent and can surely be added to the list of most misunderstood words in the world of “Agile”. At least, that can be seen as an achievement too.

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2013 SCRUM Defining Agile 68

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2017

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. Aleatory uncertainty is expressed as a process variability. First, let's establish a principle.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 5, September/October 2011. 3, March 2002.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review 2002 35

Leading Answers

MAY 26, 2020

In 2013, my home town of Canmore, Canada experienced a freak weather event when three storm systems became stuck in place for days, creating unprecedented rain and flooding. Open-plan offices favored by agile teams were criticized as “germ factories” long before COVID-19. What about open-plan offices, high-fives and shaking hands?

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2013 Retail Risk Management Influencer 78

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Managment Processes. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. Agile Project Management. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Flawless Execution.

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2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Scrum.org

MAY 29, 2020

If you’re not already aware, the way you think of testing within an agile approach is fundamentally different to the traditional one. Dan and his colleagues used similar concept to come up defining a ubiquitous language for the analytics process itself, hence when the Given, When, Then for acceptance criteria came. Add a test.

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Software Review Technical Review 2004 2003 133

The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Strategic Agility – Accept the changing environment, and think about the best approaches to being adaptive. Lean Innovation – Build adaptive processes to learn and build business around the hotpots for customers and markets. BCG Classics Revisited: The Experience Curve , 2013. What Is the Growth Share Matrix? ,

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2012 2014 2013 Consulting 98

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Root Cause is the fundamental initiating cause on a causal chain leading to a failure of a process which results in a recurrence of the problem. Root Cause Analysis is a systematic documented approach to arrive at the true Root Cause of the process problem. Daniels, Complex Adaptive Systems, Procedia Computer Science, 20 (2013), pp.

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2014 Aerospace 2011 2013 45

The Strategic Project Manager

MAY 25, 2022

I see this happening in two ways: Continuous improvement – Practitioners need to build a continuous process improvement loop into the relationships among program, portfolio, and project management. The unique processes, as tailored for the organization, need to be improved and adapted on a regular basis to remain sharp and relevant.

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PMI 2013 Lean 2018 52

Gunther Verheyen

MARCH 27, 2018

While developing my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” (2013) I described how there is value in the Scrum Values. Scrum is a (servant) process. In 2016 the Scrum Values were added to the Scrum Guide. Find the slightly updated description of the Scrum Values as a separate section on this website. Values drive behavior.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Advantages and disadvantages of creating Gantt charts in Excel Step-by-step process to create a Gantt chart using Excel Free Excel Gantt chart templates A simpler and free alternative to making Excel Gantt charts. Some of these screenshots are slightly different in Excel 2010, 2013, and 2016. Let’s get started. What is a Gantt Chart?

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2010 2013 2016 Risk Management 98

Henny Portman

JULY 17, 2020

With the book True lean – Your guide to the fundamentals connecting purpose, process and people written by Rudy Gort you get a concise but complete and clear overview of and insight into lean. Eiji Toyoda (1913-2013): build the new car factory based on just-in-time concept (JIT) and a kanban system.

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Lean Software Review 2013 Innovation 80

MPUG

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Not the best for Agile! You are better served by more specific agile PM tools. SharePoint Designer 2013 needs to be used to build custom lifecycle workflows, it is clunky, out of date and not intuitive and normally requires a 3rd party to develop the workflows. The SW is designed for experienced PMs and technical users.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2019 2013 Technical Review 52

Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

Nature of the system to be developed - what's the basic processes of the system? The notion that agile development is a free-for-all development of what ever the customer wants to produce next, with the customer identifying the next important thing to develop works just fine for de minimus projects. What's our competition?

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2014 2013 2012 Engineering 38

LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Sigmon gives project managers a defined process to not only break bad news, but also improve communication over the long-term. He explains how to succeed or fail fast for projects that are too uncertain to use waterfall project management and too complex to succeed with agile project management. An oldie but a goodie. Age of Product.

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Technical Review 2018 Certification Underperforming Technical Team 113

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

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. Scrum Roles.

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SCRUM Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 338

Digite

MAY 15, 2018

Inspired by Steve Porter’s efforts to bring process practitioners closer together and educate Scrum practitioners, I’m writing a shadow series of posts that will follow the Kanban and Scrum – Stronger Together series and continue my own efforts to clear up misconceptions between practitioners of these methods.

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Development Team Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM 93

Herding Cats

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Program Management and Systems Engineering are two critical processes for the success of any product or project development endeavor. The book contains a section on the study of agile development and systems engineering with a case study from Nationwide Insurance. This book is a must-read for anyone working on non-trivial projects.

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2011 2013 2015 Engineering 33

Planio

JULY 9, 2020

Agile Project Management out of the box. The process is a little more complicated than simply installing an app, but as long as you’re familiar with database configuration and can follow instructions, you should be okay. (If For some people, the process we just outlined for setting up Redmine might sound like a walk in the park.

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