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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. It stresses accountability and is an iterative progress towards a well-defined goal. What Is the Scrum Methodology?

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? What else happened along the road to the way that Scrum is defined and represented? 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).

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

Scrum.org

Before we begin, we need to define some of the terms we will use throughout this post. Throughout this post, we define them as “all users, customers, and other people or groups who have a clear stake in the outcomes of what this team produces, and invest money, time or both in making sure that happens”. 2013, June).

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Gunther Verheyen

So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? What else happened along the road to the way that Scrum is defined and represented? The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. How did its definition evolve before and after 2010 and become the framework that we know today?

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). July 2013). ” Software Development 9(8): 28-32. By Luigi Morsa.

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

Scrum.org

What defines fluid and stable teams? However, several studies show that cohesion positively impacts performance only in later stages of team development (e.g. This corresponds with research on autonomous teams, as well as principles of Agile software development. So when is a team “stable” and when is it “fluid”?

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Book of the Month

Herding Cats

When defining values, do not think about their measurability. Only once the values have been defined think about measurability of the bottom ones – often requires defining attributes. usability defined by a set of qualitative levels). Care is needed in this Value Focused approach [1]. Excluding hard-to-measures values.

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