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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. The Scrum Framework.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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Scrum Methodology. What It Is: Scrum is a short “sprint” approach to managing projects. The scrum methodology is It’s ideal for teams of no more than 10 people, and often is wedded to two-week cycles with short daily meetings, known as daily scrum meetings. It’s led by what is called a Scrum master.

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

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The burndown chart developed out of the Scrum community and was first used to manage software projects and other related efforts in about the year 2000. At that time, he was working at Fidelity Investments and created burndown charts to provide Scrum teams with a simple tool to help them chart their progress.

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

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Their paper provides useful insights into why the Scrum Framework might be so effective when it comes to managing complex work. Their article inspired me to apply the same insights to Scrum and to extend it with my own. It is a mental process and a limited mental resource (Ashcraft, 2002). Limitations of attention.

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In-Depth: How Scrum Motivates Teams Through Goals And Autonomy

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When people first look at the Scrum framework, they often see the roles and the events first. They see only the structure of Scrum; who wears the hats and when. But Scrum and the Agile methodologies it builds on are so much more. Scrum is a great example of a motivation framework. And that makes sense.

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

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Scrum has been around for a while, they say. The Scrum Guide holds the definition of Scrum, they say. The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? What else happened along the road to the way that Scrum is defined and represented?

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7 Mythen über Sprint-Ziele und wie du sie widerlegst

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Das Sprint-Ziel ist seit 2002 Bestandteil von Scrum. Trotzdem verwenden Scrum Teams es nur selten, wie eine Umfrage in meinem fortgeschrittenen Professional Scrum Master Training zeigte. Die weite Verbreitung dieser Mythen könnte auch der Grund sein, warum dein Scrum Team noch damit kämpft, sich Sprint-Ziele zu setzen.

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