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Scrum Components: User Stories
The primary method of communication used by Product Owners to convey requirements to the scrum team are User Stories, which in my opinion, are the single most important component in SCRUM. They...
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Scrum Components: User Stories Acceptance Criteria
Acceptance Criteria The second half of the User Story is the Acceptance criteria. Defined by the Product Owner (the voice of the customer) during User Story decomposition, acceptance criteria sets...
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Is an Agile/Scrum certification necessary?
The process of being certified as an Scrum/Agile Master involves attending two and three-day classroom sessions(respectively), at the end of which the certificate is awarded. The certification is not...
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What is Crystal?
What is the “Crystal methodology”? Introduced by Alistair Cockburn, Crystal Methods, which is a collection of Agile software development approaches, focuses primarily on people and the interaction...
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Integrating Scrum and Kanban
Scrum and Kanban are the offspring of the agile methodology. The two methods may have different approaches, but are both rooted in the agile philosophy of software development. Scrum is useful in...
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How to Choose Scrum Master(s) and Stakeholder(s)?
Selecting appropriate Scrum Master(s) and identifying relevant Stakeholder(s) is crucial to the success of any project. In some projects, there may have been pre-conditions stipulating certain team...
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Agile User Stories
User Stories adhere to a specific, predefined structure and are a simplistic way of documenting the requirements and desired end-user functionality. A User Story tells you three things about the...
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Scrum Teams Are Always Up for Time-boxing
American football teams trailing late in games often rely on a clock-management strategy known as the two-minute drill. They run hurry-up, no-huddle offenses and execute plays that involve running out...
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Importance of Scrum Certification or Scrum training
Although there are many certifications such as ITIL, PRINCE2, which are implemented in organizations for achievement of goals through a project, Scrum training or Scrum certification can be described...
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Overcoming the Challenges faced by a Scrum Team
Scrum Team, also referred to as the development team, is responsible for developing the product and they possess all the essential skills required to carry out the work of the project. They have a...
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Implementing Scrum in Organizations
Scrum is not your regular waterfall technique but an agile framework which changes and, at times, challenges traditional roles. The Organizational Resource Matrix is a hierarchical depiction of a...
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Quality Comes in Large Quantities in Scrum
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...
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6 Main Principles of Scrum Methodology
Scrum principles are the foundation on which the Scrum framework is based. The principles of Scrum can be applied to any type of project or organization, and they must be adhered to in order to ensure...
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What is a Persona?
Personas are highly detailed fictional characters, representative of the majority of users and of other stakeholders who may not directly use the end product. Personas are created to identify the...
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All About User Story Prioritization
At the program or portfolio level, there is normally a smaller number of requirements/user stories than at the project level. The percentage of user stories with a very tangible value/business...
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Scalability of Scrum
Scalability of a process, network, or unit is its ability to adjust or adapt to any expansion. For example a central server is said to be scalable if it performs similarly when attending on either...
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How do Scrum Teams Estimate Tasks in a Project?
Task planning and estimation is vital to develop products iteratively in accordance with the requirements specified in the Prioritized Product Backlog. The Scrum Team, in Task Estimation Meetings,...
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Importance of Daily Scrum Meeting
An integral part of the Scrum process is the Daily Scrum meeting which is a regular ritual practiced every morning. The team comes together on each working day about the same time to discuss the...
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Sprint Retrospective Meeting
Sprint Retrospective is a meeting convened by the Scrum Master in which the team talks about the previous sprint and decided on how to make the next sprint productive. This meeting differs from a...
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Various Scrum Aspects
Scrum is a framework for collaborative effort of the team on some of the very complex software projects. It is the most widely-used subset of Agile. The Scrum principles are the fundamental guidelines...
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