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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

In many large organizations, Scrum teams fall into the ‘feature factory’ trap, focusing more on churning out features than creating real value. It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation.

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Software Development & Management

Alan Parker Blog

Introduction to Software Development and Management Purpose The fundamental purpose of software development and management practice is to ensure that software applications meet the diverse needs of internal and external stakeholders. These needs encompass functionality, reliability, maintainability, compliance, and auditability.

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How to Budget For Your Company’s Technical Debt

Zen Project Management

Guest post by Dr. Mik Kersten While “technical debt” is a term that’s frequently used by technologists, the implication and understanding of it tends to be opaque to the business until it’s too late - just look at how Nokia lost the mobile market that it helped create. What’s technical debt?

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

Malinawan, PMP Navigating the complexities of modern project management demands a sophisticated comprehension of the Development Approach and Life Cycle Performance Domain. Delve deep into this insightful guide crafted to unravel the intricacies of Development Approaches. By: Meredith G.

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Definition of 'Done': What It Is and How It Supports Scrum Events

Scrum.org

Scrum Guide 202 0 The Definition of ‘Done’ provides a shared understanding among Creators-(The Scrum Team- Developers, Product Owner, and Scrum Master) as well as Inspectors (the stakeholders). Who is Responsible for the Definition of ‘Done’ Having a Definition of ‘Done’ is the entire Scrum team’s responsibility.

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Motivational debt — it will fix itself, right?

Scrum.org

Without motivation in any form, you can personally and professionally stagnate to a point where you become a detractor in a team environment. Likened to technical debt, this is the idea that unless regularly addressed and paid back, motivation can suffer in similar ways to quality. Most people focus on the wrong thing.

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Working Remotely? This Will Hit You Next!

Scrum.org

Many people around the globe are working from home right now, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite the rapidness of the change, moving to remote worked surprisingly well for many teams, because they were used to some degree of remote work before. The question on my mind is, if we can sustain this feeling of “it works” in the future.