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Can you be agile if you release only once a year?

Scrum.org

( Japanese version・日本語版 ) When picturing an effective and truly agile product development team, one often imagines a software development team, pushing some software to production every day, maybe multiple times a day, ala Amazon. We developed two strong partnerships with customers early on.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development team members) who work collaboratively to deliver value in an Agile project. Backlog A list of tasks, features, or requirements to be addressed by an agile project manager or team and is often associated with Agile methodologies.

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Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT

Scrum.org

Reassigning Team Members : Frequently moving team members between Scrum Teams disrupts the building of trust and undermines the stability and effectiveness of teams​​. In the absence of this feedback, teams may engage in gold-plating under the assumption that they are adding value.

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11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics

Scrum.org

Developing empathy for stakeholders is particularly relevant when Engineering and Product don’t have the best standing within the organization at the beginning of an agile transition. There are plenty of opportunities for stakeholders to interact responsibly with a Scrum Team. Show, don’t tell.

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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. It was initially created by the UK government for IT projects.

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Scrum’s Nature: It Is a Tool; It Is Not About Love or Hate

Scrum.org

It comprises of everything necessary to ship the Product Increment to our customers, including but not limited to engineering standards, governance, and legal requirements. That is why we pay the Development Team to accept the responsibility to deliver a ‘done’ Product Increment. The statement is plain wrong.

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Project Delivery through the Definition of Done

Project Pulse Journal

In traditional Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models, the DoD might be a phase completion sign-off, where a phase (like design or testing) is incomplete until all specified deliverables are reviewed, approved, and documented. This helps the project team define what needs to be delivered and prevent potential scope creep.