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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. 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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Commitments and forecasts when using Scrum

Scrum.org

A regular topic of conversation within my Scrum training courses revolves around commitments and forecasts when using the Scrum framework. Frequently we uncover significant and important misunderstandings about what Scrum Teams can commit to and what they cannot. Scrum Guide 2010. " Scrum Guide 2011.

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20 Years of The Agile Manifesto

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The role of the project manager doesn’t really exist in many agile teams: instead, the team is self-organizing and supported by a Scrum Master (in Scrum), or agile coach. The Agile Manifesto has probably had the greatest impact on how projects are done – even how non- agile projects are done. Project managers still have a place.

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

Plus, we’ll get into scrumban, a combination of kanban with scrum. Scrum teams use pin boards with user story cards and during a sprint (short iteration working on tasks) each user story (tasks) is written on a card. These cards are the sprint backlog and are placed on a board for the scrum team to choose which user story to work on.

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Why Great (Scrum) Teams Have A Mind Of Their Own

Scrum.org

How team cognition helps us understand what cross-functionality should look like for Scrum teams. What team cognition looks like for Scrum teams, and what signs tell you whether it's there or not. Butler et al, 2006, Tolin, 2010) are based on this approach (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT).

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

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? The book “Agile Project Management with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber (2004).

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Managing Money on Projects: Training (June 2024)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Agile teams can be fully costed internal resource funded from BAU budgets, so if you work in-house in a Scrum team, for example, you might not have to work out or track any incremental costs. Normally at my courses we get a good mix of people at various stages in their careers and from different industries. I don’t know!

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