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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?

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A Review Of Scrum For Kanban Teams

Digite

In case you haven’t read Yuval’s post, basically, it presents a map of values and practices in Scrum to Kanban language, and encourages Kanban teams to approach Scrum from a practices point of view. As I wrote in 2013, Scrum and Kanban both share a use of values to encourage users of the methods to behave a certain way.

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In-Depth: The Science On Sustainable Pace, Stress, And Motivation

Scrum.org

This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. al, 2013), healthcare professionals (Papathanasiou et. Burnout–depression overlap: A review. Source: Wikipedia. .

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Dependency Management – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Scrum.org

Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work? Dependencies are an epidemic in software development. Sutherland, Scrum Guide, 2013.

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

Scrum.org

Team cognition is similar in the sense that the entire team can be thought of as a body, where each member (the limbs) has to learn how to coordinate their work effectively to move forward. This shared understanding is captured in the “team mental models” that drive team cognition. It takes time to develop teams.

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Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing

Digite

Anderson best articulated its application to software development, in 2013, in the foundational book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, and its adoption hasn’t been as universal as Scrum’s during the early days of Agile software development. Creating Your First Kanban Board.

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Team Management: The Key of to Success

International Institute for Learning

For instance in the Agile Scrum Methodology [4] it is recommended to have 10 or fewer people in a team. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, likes to use the “two-pizza rule” for strategy and development teams. If it takes more than two pizzas to feed (with a slice) the team, the team is likely too big.