Some people are very proficient in a particular field, but rarely contribute outside of that field. These people are called “I-types” in the agile community because they are like the letter “I” in that they have depth, but not much breadth. In contrast, “T-people” have complementary expertise in one area, but less developed skills in related areas and good collaboration skills.
Continue readingScrum Master — How to Avoid Personal Issues
Getting the preparation right and keeping a close watch on the mechanics is a great start but the biggest risk of derailment is from people problems. Planning is all about the interaction between the participants, so there’s plenty that can and will go wrong:
Continue readingScrum for Non-IT Projects
Although applied commonly to IT projects, scrum is equally useful in non-IT projects. Scrum is more about team dynamics and work culture than about any specific project management practice.
Continue reading10 Agile Guidelines for Improving your Scrum Projects
This article aims to illustrate the Agile practices and provide guidance to agile team on adopting Agile for implementation of IT systems. It was developed based on common Agile practices in the industry and the experiences gained from the various pilot projects.
Continue readingThe Best Automated Scrum Software — Jumpstart Scrum and Customize Scrum for your specific Needs
Scrum Process Canvas is a scrum tool built to help you manage your scrum project – from identifying project vision, through to final product delivery. Seamlessly navigate the entire scrum process in a single, beautifully designed scrum process canvas. Perform scrum activities quickly, easily and seamlessly. Keep the whole team fully engaged. Our agile software makes agile projects simple and effective.
Continue readingThe Best Scrum Tool —Automating the Entire Process in One Single Page
The Scrum Process Canvas is a Scrum management tool. It presents actionable Scrum activities in a one-page process canvas. Team members perform activities to manage and complete software projects. The Scrum process Canvas is fully customizable, allowing you to add additional activities (such as certain meetings) and process deliverables (such as domain-specific logs) to the Scrum process to meet your specific project needs.
Continue readingRules of Scrum — Sprint
According to Scrum.org, a Sprint is a “month or less framework within which a “completed”, usable and potentially releasable product increment is created. The duration of a Sprint is consistent throughout the development effort. A new Sprint begins immediately after the previous Sprint ends…….
Continue readingRules of Scrum Ceremonies — Sprint Review Meeting
As described in the Scrum Guide, the Scrum framework consists of Scrum teams and their associated roles, events, artifacts, and rules. However, Scrum rules are not as easy to identify as roles, events, and artifacts. This list attempts to extract these rules for conducting Scrum events and provide them as a supplemental resource to the Scrum Guide.
Continue readingRules of Scrum Ceremonies — Sprint Retrospective Meeting
The Sprint Retrospective occurs after the Sprint Review and before the next Sprint is scheduled. For a one-month sprint, this is a three-hour meeting at most. The retrospective meeting is basically an “improvement” meeting to find ways and means to identify potential pitfalls, past mistakes, and seek new ways to avoid them, with all people in attendance – product owners, Scrum Masters, development team members, and optionally with stakeholders.
Continue readingRules of Scrum Ceremonies — Sprint Planning Meeting
The sprint planning meeting is held before the sprint begins. The purpose of this meeting is to define the sprint plan and set sprint goals. The sprint plan includes agreeing on the number of backlog items in the sprint that will be the responsibility of the development team, as well as determining the goals for the current sprint and sprint backlog.
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