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

Scrum.org

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? 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. What is a sustainable pace?

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. It became a part of agile when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” in 2001. Processes can be defined and improved.

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Working Remotely? This Will Hit You Next!

Scrum.org

Despite the rapidness of the change, moving to remote worked surprisingly well for many teams, because they were used to some degree of remote work before. Especially development teams and technology firms in general have many years of experience with allowing their workforce to do their jobs from wherever and whenever they like.

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The art of unshipping: How to deprioritize features, phase out projects and sunset products

Planio

In 2017, Apple did something no one expected. While keeping customers happy is essential for any sustainable business , they don’t always know what will make them happy. Support metrics: Is it taking time away from your support and development teams? They removed the headphone jack on their latest iPhone. Their answer?

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The Origins of Scrum Might Not Be What You Think They Are (Wisdom from Rafael Sabbagh)

Gunther Verheyen

Having no other plans for that time being, I could completely focus on my work as curator: contacting people, collecting ideas for essays, reviewing potential essays, suggesting potential edits, ordering and categorizing them, reviewing the manuscript and the cover. 1986, [link]. (2) 14, 2001: pp. 20, 2004: pp.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Project Success Assessment - A checklist for assessing the processes for project success.

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Scrum Vocabulary (updated)

Gunther Verheyen

The event serves for the Development Team to share the daily progress, plan the work for the next 24 hours and update Sprint Backlog accordingly. Development standards : the set of standards and practices that a Development Team identifies as needed to create releasable Increments of product no later than by the end of a Sprint.

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