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

CIO Business Intelligence

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. What does a Scrum master do?

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How Agile Scrum is Transforming Sales Teams at Broadcom Software

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s what’s driven us toward the concept of the Agile Scrum, a philosophy that Broadcom Software decided to adopt for our international sales team. . Agile and Scrum are often thought to be one and the same, but they’re not. Agile is a set of principles while Scrum is a framework for getting work done. Team Personified.

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Agile project management: Principles, benefits, tools, tips, and when to make the switch

CIO Business Intelligence

Although agile does value documentation, it is not as heavily emphasized as it is in traditional project management, for which documentation is often very detailed and assembled in advance. Agile project management and Scrum Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects.

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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO Business Intelligence

Agile and scrum methodologies put most of the emphasis on delivery activities when teams focus on completing user stories every sprint. Product owners and scrum masters must also engage the team in planning activities, including writing user stories, estimating work, and grooming backlogs.

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

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies. Monday, February 23, 2009.

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NLP helps Eli Lilly work at a global scale

CIO Business Intelligence

Coleman’s team worked closely with Regulatory Affairs to identify requirements around document types, languages, and so on. The service, which earned Eli Lilly a CIO 100 Award in IT Excellence , provides real-time translation of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and text for users and systems, keeping document format in place.

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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO Business Intelligence

Agile , which includes subvariants such as Lean and Scrum, is increasing in popularity and is being utilized in virtually every industry. CSM: Certified Scrum Master. Document controller: $74,899. Here is a comparison of the three key roles within the PMO or EPMO, all are in high demand due to their leadership skill sets.