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

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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 No Scrum Master? How should Enterprises fill the Scrum Master Role? Tuesday, November 03, 2009.

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Kevin Lowell’s appointment as UScellular’s Chief People Officer puts IT in the limelight

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Become a partner with the business rather than an order-taker – Here, IT applied Agile concepts by sitting down with business stakeholders early on during the service development process and ideating with them, asking lots of questions about customers’ preferences, for example.

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Agile Process Improvement Using. Agile! - 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 Who should be the scrum master? software development. (51). web development. (12).

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Is Your Enterprise Ready for Agile Development? - Social, Agile.

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Agile proponents did themselves a favor adopting the generic agile development to represent processes like SCRUM, Extreme Programming, etc. Agile teams and development life cycles create challenges to those who are responsible for these enterprise structures. For example, there are practical limits to self organization.

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Agile Does Not Need A Maturity Model - Social, Agile, and.

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This is especially true with agile practices since the choice of what processes to establish and areas to mature needs to fit a business need and priority and these improvements can be managed through the scrum process. Heres an example. The worst case is the "sales technique" mentioned -- a truely horrible example.

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Evaluating SaaS Vendors ? Understanding Business Models and.

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For example, many SaaS vendors still believe that their core business will be the foundation for other, more profitable businesses. software development. (51). web development. (12). Top Ten Thoughts for SCRUM Newbies. Why is this important? product management. (26). project management. (50). social media. (3).

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