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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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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). ” Software Development 9(8): 28-32. Agile Software Development with Scrum.

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How to shrink your project with the Minimum Viable Product: 5 Tips for Minimum Viable Projects

Inloox

The Minimum Viable Product concept , which we know from product development, meets precisely this challenge. In software development, for example, a Minimum Viable Product helps to minimize the number of feature requests to a feasible level. The phrase "While we're at it, we could still." Author: Dr. Andreas Tremel

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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”. The first term is Stakeholder.

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

Herding Cats

There have been some recent posts about managing scope, defining needed Features, determining how to release software to stakeholders - in both traditional and agile processes. This document is all but unknown in the Enterprise IT domain and completely unknown in the agile software development world. Lizotte, C.

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How to Foster Motivation and Purpose Through Agility

Scrum.org

Before we dive in any further, let’s define our terms. When I say motivation, I define it as finding meaning in your job (how YOU make a difference to the whole). Merriam-Webster defines purpose as “the reason for which something is done or created, or for which something exists.” In fact, according to an Inc. McLeod, S.A.

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