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14 Free Software Development Templates for Excel, Word & More

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Software development lives in a digital world. Why would anyone want to use software development templates? But some software developers and their teams might not be ready to upgrade to project management software. Learn more Why Use a Software Development Template? Still reading?

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Scrum Beyond Software Development

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I think that a lot of people are surprised to learn that Scrum is not just for software development. Scrum was first presented in 1995 by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. Most early Agile teams were software development teams.

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AI as a Scrum Team Member

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Image Every Scrum Team wishes they had time each Sprint to accomplish more. Think of it almost as how pair programming in software development works where developers work together to develop, test and validate software development. AI engines can be leveraged in many ways. for example.

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Common Myths About Scrum

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There are many common myths about Scrum. Here are a few examples: Scrum is only for software development: While Scrum was initially developed for software development, it is now used in various industries, including finance, healthcare, marketing, and education.

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Increasing the Agility of Biotech Companies by Tuning their Scrum

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They were looking for a way to accelerate their development while leaving the option of switching to development alternatives based on updated or future research. They contacted me because they felt Scrum could help them increase their agility to the level they were looking for. Step by step we kept progressing.

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Scrum and Lean Thinking - What's the relation?

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In the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide a new thinking model was added to the principles on which Scrum is founded - Lean Thinking. However, not enough justice is done in explaining WHY Lean Thinking was introduced or added to Scrum guide. And this stands true for the other accountabilities on the Scrum Team as well.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

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The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. We’ll explore the scrum methodology in-depth, but before that, let’s start with a simple scrum definition.

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