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

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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”. 2017, May).

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Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Project Management

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He received the PMI Fellow award in 2017. He additionally served as Director of Civil Agencies at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute and as Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton. Euguene earned an M.S. degree in Information Systems from the University of Southern California and a B.B.A.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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Some Product Owners are highly involved with their teams, whereas others consider their work done when the product “is defined”. Kristinsdottir, Larusdottir & Cajander (2017) followed and interviewed Product Owners at Spotify. They are responsible for setting priorities, defining goals, and clarifying which work needs to be done.

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Project Delivery through the Definition of Done

Project Pulse Journal

It can be your reality with a well-defined DoD. It defines what it means for a user story or sprint to be complete, ensuring that all scrum team members understand and meet the required quality benchmarks before proceeding. This helps the project team define what needs to be delivered and prevent potential scope creep.

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Development Team Anti-Patterns

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Source : Scrum Guide 2017. . Check out the complete Scrum Guide 2017 list on the Development Team by downloading the Scrum Guide Reordered.). Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers.

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Are Scrum Masters Sufficiently Focused On Valuable Outcomes?

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Noll and his colleagues (2017) reviewed other studies on the Scrum roles and also concluded that Scrum Masters spend most of their time on process facilitation and hosting Scrum events. 2017, November). In International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (pp. Empirical Software Engineering , 26 (1), 1–31.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.