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What Makes Scrum Teams Effective? A scientific investigation of 1.200 Scrum teams

Scrum.org

We chose to develop our model from observational data from 13 case studies that took place over a period of five years. Although the case studies were not exhaustive of all kinds of Scrum teams, they provided a great starting point for model development by grounding it in real Scrum teams. Each core factor?—?except

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The project customer role

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In many respects, it doesn’t really matter how you define customer, or how many customers your project has. For example, in the case study in the book, we were delivering a project for the whole business, with a range of operational groups who represented our internal customers. Project customer vs sponsor.

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10 Common Management Challenges Solved by Scrum

Scrum.org

Scrum Solution : Scrum distinguishes between accountabilities and responsibilities, providing a flexible framework that allows teams to define how best to fulfill these roles within their unique contexts. This crucial event gathers the whole team to define deliverables for the upcoming Sprint and outline strategies for achieving them.

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Adopting Business Agility at Moonpig: A Case Study

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

To accomplish this I worked with the leadership team to define a long lived set of metrics that represented growth for our business. What we do to influence retention will change relatively often, but the outcome itself is constant. A creative or brand function will define clear brand guidelines. About the Author.

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What Makes Agile Transformations Successful? Results From A Scientific Study

Scrum.org

This reveals what seems to be true in the majority of cases. This is essentially what Russo did in his study. Taken together, the following core Agile Success Model emerged from the field study: The Agile Success Model. The Agile Success Model: A Mixed-methods Study of a Large-scale Agile Transformation.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

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’”. Some Product Owners are highly involved with their teams, whereas others consider their work done when the product “is defined”.

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What is Stakeholder Analysis? (With Free Stakeholder Engagement Plan)

Planio

Stakeholder analysis is the best way to identify, categorize, and plan your engagement strategy with everyone who’s interested and can influence the outcome of your project. In project management, a stakeholder is anyone interested in or with influence over your project’s outcome. But this is a mistake. What is stakeholder analysis?