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Dwight D Eisenhower said, “I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” The Agile Manifesto tends to agree with Eisenhower and values “Responding to change over following a plan.” Different kinds of plans play important roles at different levels. Iterations are short periods, lasting for 1 to 6 weeks, during which…
A Scrum project often goes through a number of phases. Five phases, composed of nineteen processes, are suggested in A Guide to the Scrum Body of Knowledge (SBOK™). Regardless of the Scrum project, it needs to start somewhere—this is known as the Initiate phase. The Initiate phase includes six processes that address the specific activities…
A Scrum project often goes through a number of phases. Five phases, composed of nineteen processes, are suggested in A Guide to the Scrum Body of Knowledge (SBOK™). After the Initiate phase comes the Plan and Estimate phase. This phase includes five processes related to planning and estimating tasks. It is important to note that…
A Scrum adopter who is not well-schooled should go see the principles. The SBOK™ Guide discusses the six Scrum principles that should be used in all Scrum projects: Empirical Process Control, Self-organization, Collaboration, Value-based Prioritization, Time-boxing and Iterative Development. Scrum principles, though non-negotiable, can be applied by any organization to any type of project. Scrum…
For many newspapers, the rise of the Internet has stopped the presses. Permanently. Droves of readers have left their gazette subscriptions for web search engines, mobile applications and social media accounts. But some newspapers have managed to adapt rather than die. They have supplemented print publications with online versions, generated engagement through social media and…
Competing video game companies—one that operates inside of the Scrum framework and one that does not—release similar games around the same time. The graphics and story-lines in each are fantastic. As gamer’s button mash their way through the campaigns, however, disparities emerge. Unlike its competitor, the company that operates inside of the Scrum framework finds…
“To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it’s the way we’re made.” – Karen Walker Thompson When many of us think of risks, we think of a child’s roller skate left on the front doorstep or the possibility…
The “hybrid cloud may be garnering increased interest and adoption, but it is already giving way to new terms such as hybrid IT and hybrid enterprise,” writes Eileen Yu on ZDNET. Hybrid IT? Where have we heard this term before? In 2014, Computerworld.com predicted that businesses would need to fill one or more of five…
Question: What’s a camel? Answer: A horse designed by a committee. Sometimes a Project Vision Statement can become clumsy-looking and all-inclusive like a camel, when what is needed is a sleek, powerful racehorse. Using the right tools skillfully can keep your Project Vision Statement thoroughbred thin. A Guide to the Scrum Body of Knowledge (SBOK™)…
Organizations around the globe have accepted Scrum as a primary project delivery framework for their projects, especially when they operate in a dynamic business environment. Growing popularity and acceptability of Scrum has created a great demand for Scrum and Agile certified professionals in the job market. SCRUMstudy, the global accreditation body for Scrum and Agile…
