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Can scrum be used outside software development?

Scrum.org

. Can scrum be used outside software development? I’ve often worked in cases in non-software where I might have had 10 options that I would consider for the team. And so it’s crucial that if you’re working in non-software and also I would argue in software you need to learn the business domain.

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Lack of Education is a Root Cause of Poor Agile Performance

Scrum.org

The first paper was a 2012 study on the tensions with remote (off-shoring) teams (Ramesh et al Ambidexterity in Agile Development ISR2012). It confirmed my preconception that regular education struggles to keep up with developments in our field. Even in institutions where they teach (software) development.

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Organizational Competencies: What They Are and How to Develop Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I worked in the IT team at my old job. We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. I would not have said we had software development as one of our core organizational competencies. Leadership.

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5 practices that help with agile software development

Scrum.org

Often we work harder in Scrum teams, but not necessarily smarter. As a technical Scrum Master and technical Agile Coach, I travel a lot with teams and accompany them on their adventures. The adventure consists of regular deliveries of valuable software for effective product development. Humans are bad automatons.

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Contracting for Agile Software Development Efforts

Scrum.org

Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. Your legal department is trained to protect the firm from all the bad things that can happen when the unexpected occurs. Combine that tendency with management’s desire to protect their jobs when the bad things happen.

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Dependency Management – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Scrum.org

Does your team struggle to get items to Done? Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work? Dependencies are an epidemic in software development.

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Risk Breakdown Structure for Projects: A Complete Guide to RBS

ProjectManager.com

Either way, project managers have to prepare for risk, either good or bad—it can interfere with project objectives. More often, you’ll address it during the planning phase when you assign roles and responsibilities to your team members. Risk is usually thought of as a negative impact on the project’s budget, timeline or quality.

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