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

Scrum.org

A while ago, I received an interesting scientific article from Gunther Verheyen titled “Getting Things Done: The Science Behind Stress-Free Productivity” (Heylighen & Vidal, 2007). Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Good examples are wikipedia and open-source projects (Heylighen, 2007).

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

In the end, the sources I used for describing the evolutions of the definition of Scrum are: The paper “SCRUM Software Development Process” by Ken Schwaber (1995, 1996). The book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (2002). The book “The Enterprise and Scrum” by Ken Schwaber (2007).

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Real Cross-functional Teams for Creating Real and Better Products

Scrum.org

Besides that, she has published her experience in her books Agile Software Development in the Large, Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams, Retrospectives for Organizational Change, and together with Johanna Rothman Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in your Project Portfolio.

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Get To Know Inloox: Martin - Software Engineer and Employee from “Day One”

Inloox

Martin has been working for InLoox since October 2007 and is therefore the oldest employee in our company. Today, he supports our development team as a software architect with his many years of experience. For me, InLoox means continuous development and challenge. Pierre: Software Developer at InLoox.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

There is also the Dynamic Organic Transformation (DOT) team model for high-performance teams (Courtney, Navarro & O’Hare, 2007) or Kozlowski’s process model for team development (1999). Teams generally develop through a number of stages, although scientific models vary in which stages and in what order. 2007, August).

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991.

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Gunther Verheyen

In the end, the sources I used for describing the evolutions of the definition of Scrum are: The paper “SCRUM Software Development Process” by Ken Schwaber (1995, 1996) The paper “SCRUM: An extension pattern language for hyperproductive software development” by Mike Beedle, Martine Devos, Yonat Sharon, Ken Schwaber and Jeff (..)

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