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5 Reasons Why You Should Become a Scrum Master

International Institute for Learning

By Tactec Team Scrum Masters are an important part of an agile team as they are responsible for mentoring, teaching, coaching, and facilitating teams on how to be high performing and self-organizing by applying Scrum practices, values, and principles. However, should you really become a Scrum Master?

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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

10 years ago, it seemed that a little Scrum here and some coaching there would suffice. I’m Matt VanVleet, the Chief Technology Officer for Leading Agile. I used to have my own consulting company and have been involved in Agile practices since XP and before the Agile Manifesto.

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Creating the Conditions for High-Performance Development Teams

Leading Agile

In Agile, you only get the full benefits of Scrum and SAFe when certain conditions are met in the organization. Today, Mike Cottmeyer brings in our CTO and one of the main architects of our Studios offering to discuss the conditions that must be present for solid technical practices and software craftsmanship to thrive.

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The Intrigue – and the Universality – of Kanban

Digite

While there has been a fair bit of the religious battle about Scrum vs. Kanban – which, while doing injustice to both Scrum and Kanban, has certainly helped to keep Kanban under the spotlight – the fact is that most consultants, coaches, and practitioners have been far more pragmatic and sanguine about it.

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Is JIRA a Counterproductive Project Management Software In Today’s Market?

nTask

My point is that although project management tools are not completely important; they are definitely a means to an end. As a result, when they send in a request to the IT team and the CTO to buy task management tools, a lot of wrong things happen. The daily business operations are headed by the CEO and the CTO. File Attachment.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

MPUG

We are a project management consulting company in the Baltimore Washington area. I’m the director of technology solutions and the CTO for the company. And there’s just a quote here from a consultant in the DC area that says, “Managing a project without metrics is like sailing a ship without a compass.”

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Project Risk Management Model Based on Prince2 and Scrum Frameworks,” Martin Tomanek and Jan Juricek, International Journal of Software Engineering and Applications (IJSEA) , Vol. Brian Derfer, CTO. Introducing the Agile Risk Management (ARM) Framework,” Brian Derfer, CTO, Agile Six Applications, Inc., Order Contract, C.