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

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Can you be Agile with fixed-bid Projects?

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But, the reality is that over the last 20+ years of the Agile Manifesto, the context, use, and experience with agile provides some evidence that there is a fundamental attribution error concerning the approach to Agile Software development and its execution. It can be a challenging leadership problem and problematic to resolve.

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

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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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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

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In those situations where team members frequently have to work with new members, it is not surprising that much more effort will need to be made to continuously develop, refresh and refine work agreements and shared mental models. Analysis of fault generation caused by stress during software development. Butchibabu, A.,

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We are entering the Deployment Phase of the Digital Age

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Of course, this list changes with the markets, but if you compare that to 2011, the list is 60% different. Scrum, agile thinking, modern software development working practices are synonymous with Digital Technology and have evolved out of the fundamentally different characteristics of the opportunity presented by technology.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

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There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. Some of the references in the paper “The impact of inadequate customer collaboration on self-organizing teams” by Hoda, Noble & Marshall (2011). That is great!

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

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Bushe and Chu (2011) identify seven situations that drive the use of fluid teaming in those environments: High turnover among employees, leading to changes in teams. This corresponds with research on autonomous teams, as well as principles of Agile software development. The need for fluid teams. So … stable teams or fluid teams?