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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum. That hasn’t stopped practitioners from using scrum in varying industries, from retail logistics to event planning.

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20 Marketing Influencers You Should Follow on LinkedIn

Proofhub

20 Marketing LinkedIn Influencers You Should Follow in 2019 Do you know that over 2 million posts, articles, and videos are posted on LinkedIn every day, generating tens of millions of likes, shares, and comments every hour? Marketing, software development, and/or human resource? But how do you know which influencer to follow?

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“Agile Is Just for Software” and other Scrum Myths

Scrum.org

For example, Scrum includes five events: the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective. The Scrum guide clearly describes the purpose of each of these events, but the Scrum guide doesn’t include a required agenda for any of these events. It is deliberately incomplete.

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7 Ways to Sell Agile to Project Stakeholders

LiquidPlanner

Attend Agile events in your local area for networking and learning purposes (extra points if you bring your direct manager along). Metrics around the success and progress of a software development project are many and varied. Capture metric improvements as part of standard reporting. It’s not good for business.

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Practical Fibonacci: A Beginner's Guide to Relative Sizing

Scrum.org

A traditional or Waterfall software development lifecycle includes a long and detailed planning period to define requirements before beginning development. I have little experience or high time pressure; therefore, the estimate is influenced. All team members vote­–without being influenced by other team members.

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What’s the big deal about the Definition of Done in Scrum?

Scrum.org

If we don’t have a straightforward answer about a batch of cookies, imagine how much more grey area there might be in something as complex as software development. Without a clear agreement about a Definition of Done, some developers may think they are done after the code is complete. Or when the kitchen is clean?

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Risks in the project: an overview

Inloox

This type of risk is easier to control, since the project team can exert a direct influence on the project environment. External risks, on the other hand, originate outside the sphere of influence of the project team. If such an event occurs, the budget framework is blown. This is the critical point in this context.

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