Modern and effective project management techniques require skills that allow the seamless integration of best practice tools with good leadership and team management within an organization for improving the likelihood of success of time-limited initiatives. These practices include establishing clear accountabilities, defining objectives and outcomes, establishing the scope, planning, monitoring, and reporting controls for project activities.
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Do It Yourself Automated Scrum Process
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 readingWhy Agile? Why Plan-Driven Software Development Projects Fail?
A plan-driven process means that all process activities are planned in advance and progress is measured against that plan. In an agile process, the plan is incremental and it is easier to change the plan and software to reflect changing customer needs.
Continue readingScrum: Why Sprint Length should be Short?
Sprinting is running over a short distance in a limited period of time. It is used in many sports that incorporate running, typically as a way of quickly reaching a target or goal, or avoiding or catching an opponent. A sprint is a time box. Each sprint has a start and end date during which a set of selected user stories have to be completed and confirmed. The following image shows you the key elements of a sprint, which includes a set of user stories, the scrum members involved, the assignment of work, the duration and end date (top-right corner).
Continue readingScrum Team — I-Shaped vs T-Shaped People
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.
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