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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

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Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. This highly adopted framework utilizes short iterations of work, called sprints, and daily meetings, called scrums, to tackle discrete portions of a project in succession until the project is complete. Others do not.

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No Scrum Master? No Problem - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Tuesday, November 03, 2009. No Scrum Master? How should Enterprises fill the Scrum Master Role? I field this question very often and especially from members of technology organizations where agile and scrum in particular is being introduced top down from Management. Note: Scrum of scrums really works for this scenario!).

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Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Monday, February 23, 2009. Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies. My colleagues and I from BusinessWeek gave a presentation last week covering our agile planning and development process and ended with an intro to SCRUM by @silviogalea. Ideally the product owner or the Scrum Master. Look for a coach if you need some help.

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Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Monday, January 05, 2009. Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009. Looking back to 2008, I shifted this blog from covering startups and issues for CTOs (re: Startup CTO ) and covered a lot about the agile software development life cycle. So on to 2009. agile software development. (56).

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Agile Process Improvement Using. Agile! - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

When I talk to leaders and teams about agile and scrum, they get the basics right away - sprint length, stand ups, commitments, getting to done, and basic backlog management. Who should be the scrum master? If you are using a coach, Id recommend using them as a Scrum Master on this team. and business transformation. Newer Post.

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Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Thursday, March 26, 2009. Ive been asked lately about the role of project managers on agile or SCRUM teams. Some specifics: Scrum and agile are very team and inward facing. Labels: agile software development , project management. agile software development. (56). agile software development. (56). Make sense?

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We're an Agile Family! - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

But to be a agile family with a scrum board, and family retrospectives? Labels: about me , agile software development , innovation. agile software development. (56). agile software development. (56). software development. (51). software qa. (8). ► 2009. (36). Isaac Sacolick. Email This BlogThis!

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