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

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Daniel is a Professor at the University of Aalborg and is specialized in empirical software engineering. Daniel Russo to write an academic paper that has been submitted to the academic journal “T ransactions of Software Engineering ”. The case studies also provided insights into potential patterns.

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

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Is it really that important that they are autonomous, able to release frequently, interact closely with stakeholders and spend all that time on continuous improvement? We will share results from scientific studies that we located through Google Scholar. What do scientific studies have to say? Or is all that just hype?

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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One consistent pattern in studies about Product Owners is that there is a gap between the theory of the Scrum framework and how it is practiced. . 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’”.

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Five reasons why Scrum is not helping in getting twice the work done in half the time

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It is not only because the book is good, but I felt connected with one of the case studies. When looked closely, we found out that continuous integration is missing, no build automation, and pair programming and mob programming are complete NO. What will be an effective measure to have such a comparison? Complete harmony at work.

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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

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It doesn’t matter whether you look at the available research on the progress of DX (⁶), case studies, the job market, the number of certification holders, public training or conferences; the evidence tells the same story. In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking.

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What makes the difference between a GOOD Scrum Master and a GREAT Scrum?Master?

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I think I have studied all that is currently available to become a Professional Scrum Master. A Scrum Master needs to learn about processes, change, frameworks, practices, soft-skills, psychology, software engineering, agile engineering practices and so forth. Closely related to creativity is curiosity.

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How To Carry Out a Requirements Analysis

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Requirements analysis in software engineering . While requirements analysis is beneficial to any project, it is most common in software engineering. In software engineering, requirements analysis, known as requirement engineering, defines expectations for new software being built or modified. .