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Top Project Management Conferences of 2020

ProjectManager.com

So, save the date and mark your calendars, whether analog or digital: here are the top project management conferences of 2020. Change Management 2020 Conference. 2020 Project Management Symposium. Global Scrum Gathering. For the agile enthusiast, this scrum gathering takes place twice a year since 2013.

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Best Project Planning Software of 2020

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2020 Best Project Planning Software Rankings. It has tools like kanban boards, which make it ideal for scrum teams. Though it can help scrum teams, those that work within the larger agile framework will find the software frustrating in its rigidity. Even scrum is not fully served as there is no retrospective management.

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What Type of Scrum Master Are You?

Scrum.org

There is an important difference between the Scrum Master accountability, as described in the Scrum Guide 2020, and the Scrum Master role, as it is lived in different organisations. You can be a Scrum Master, while your job description and role in the organisation may slightly differ.

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Why Pre-assigning Tasks in Scrum is a Bad Idea (And What to Do Instead)

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Scrum is designed to empower teams, enhance collaboration, and increase adaptability. While the intention is good, this approach contradicts Scrums core principles and hampers performance. Scrum is Built on Self-Management Self-management is a core tenet of Scrum. Tasks often change as new insights emerge during a Sprint.

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What is Scrum? An Introduction to the Scrum Framework

Speaker: Eric Naiburg, Chief Operating Officer at Scrum.org

Although Scrum has been around for more than 25 years, it is still new to many. In this session, we provide an overview of the Scrum framework, discuss how Scrum enables agility and ways that empiricism can empower the teams that use it. The 2020 Scrum Guide - Scrum Events - Scrum Artifacts.

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Scrum Beyond Software Development

Scrum.org

I think that a lot of people are surprised to learn that Scrum is not just for software development. Scrum was first presented in 1995 by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. You might say that Scrum - like other Agile frameworks - 'grew up' in software development. Most early Agile teams were software development teams.

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That's the Power of Scrum

Scrum.org

No, the creators of Scrum were not lazy. The Scrum framework is purposefully incomplete, only defining the parts required to implement Scrum theory. Scrum is built upon by the collective intelligence of the people using it. What we mean is that Scrum is a framework within which teams work together to deliver value.

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