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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

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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

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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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Dependency Management – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

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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: The Science On Sustainable Pace, Stress, And Motivation

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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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Newbies’ Guide to Scrum Project Management 101

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Some of its approaches, other than Scrum , include Extreme Programming (XP) for quality upfront building, Lean thinking for waste elimination and the Agile Unified Process (AUP) approach to developing business application software using agile techniques. The Scrum team is divided as follows: Product Owner. a Scrum Master.

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

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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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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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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’”. Which activities can be fulfilled by others in the team, and what is needed for that? Data from our Scrum Team Survey may shed a light on this.

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