article thumbnail

Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

Agile Methodology. What It Is: In a nutshell, Agile project management is an evolving and collaborative way to self-organize across teams. The agile methodology offers project teams a very dynamic way to work and collaborate and that’s why it is a very popular project management methodology for product and software development.

article thumbnail

Burndown Chart: What Is It & How Do I Use It?

ProjectManager.com

A burndown chart is a graphic representation of how quickly the team is working through a customer’s user stories, an agile tool that is used to capture a description of a feature from an end-user perspective. Velocity is an agile term that means the total effort estimates associated with user stories that were completed during an iteration.

2002 415
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

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. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. What Is the Scrum Methodology? Scrum Values. Scrum Roles.

SCRUM 397
article thumbnail

In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

What is the business case for Agile teams? We think we do well to base our beliefs about Agile more on evidence. This post is our attempt to bring an evidence-based perspective to the business case of Agile teams. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams.

Agile 225
article thumbnail

A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Following Carter, Gregory Balestrero directed PMI for a decade, starting in 2002. The site also has tools to help you with categories such as Agile, application lifecycle management, budgeting and forecasting, change management and more. Currently, Mark Langley is the president of PMI. PMI Founders.

PMI 381
article thumbnail

Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

Scrum.org

Scrum/Agile) are more suitable to deal with complex problems because they are more attuned to our cognitive abilities. It is a mental process and a limited mental resource (Ashcraft, 2002). In fact, simple heuristics can actually lead to better, quicker decisions than theoretical optimal procedures (Gigerenzer, 2002).

2002 225
article thumbnail

Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

The book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (2002). The book “Agile Project Management with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber (2004). The book “The Enterprise and Scrum” by Ken Schwaber (2007). The Scrum Guide” by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland (2009, 2010).

2010 234