Management
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Why Agile?
When The Manifesto for Agile Software Development first was published in 2001, it laid out twelve basic principles for accelerating application development, testing, and maintenance. Above all, Agile development advocated for significantly greater flexibility in meeting customer needs, even if those needs were constantly changing. Since then, Agile methodology has gone mainstream in a big way.…
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How Daily Standups Should Work
By its nature, Scrum tries to be as flexible as possible so it doesn’t dictate how any particular team conducts their daily standups. The point of the daily standup is to give everyone on the team the opportunity to share information with the rest of the team in order to do their work that day…
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The Roles of an Agile Scrum Project
Scrum Master Even if you are new to Scrum, you may have heard of a role called the Scrum Master. The Scrum Master is the team’s facilitator, and helps the scrum team achieve their highest level of performance. In the Scrum process, a Scrum Master differs from a traditional project manager in many ways, including…
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What is Scrum?
Scrum is a process framework used to manage product development and other knowledge work. Scrum is used to provide a means for teams to establish a hypothesis of how they think something works, try it out, reflect on the experience, and make the appropriate adjustments. That is, when the framework is used properly. Scrum is…
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Tips for Running Your First Project
That great day has finally come. After working faithfully for months (or perhaps years), you are finally getting your chance to take over as a project manager. You are about to assume a leadership role for both the project and the people working on it. While there is a chance that you will be starting…