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Scrum makes testing a central practice and part of the development process rather than something that happens after the developers are “done.” Rather than trying to test quality after a product has been built, we build quality into the process and product as it is being developed. – Mike Cohn
This article is born out of the need to establish that due diligence is required even in the face of the self-organization and independence that Agile principles hinge on. I want to start by quoting one of the pillars of the Agile Methodology domain. Mike Cohn laid it out in…
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As many of you already know, I am the program lead for the Certified Scrum Coaching (CSC) Program with the Scrum Alliance. As the program lead, it is my responsibility to facilitate the review process, review teams, and review application. While a relatively new program founded in 2007, our…
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Scrum Alliance and the aborted Sprint Featured
Written by Dele Oluwole,CSM
I have attempted in this article to apply scrum as a framework (that suits all projects) to Scrum Alliance continuous improvement of the Certified Scrum Certification (CSP) "While most often associated with software development efforts, Scrum is a project management framework not a software development life cycle and…
An adequate ScrumMaster can handle two or three teams at a time. If you're content to limit your role to organizing meetings, enforcing timeboxes, and responding to the impediments people explicitly report, you can get by with part time attention to this role. The team will probably still exceed the…
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Seven Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started out as a ScrumMaster Typically, when an organization starts using Scrum, the person chosen to play the role of ScrumMaster comes from some sort of managerial background. The organization expects that the manager, the so-called "Master," will get the Scrum project…
For some time I have been asking myself if the certification of the Scrum Alliance and more recently of Scrum.org is really what European organizations need. I don’t think so. Why do I think this? Scrum Alliance – Standstill in further development Inspite of all efforts the Scrum Alliance is…
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I just finished reading the following article: Scrum Alliance and Scrum.org: Yesterday’s Concepts Do Not Solve Today’s Problems I was going to comment there, and then decided it was really worth its own blog post. Full disclosure: I am a CSM and a CSPO, and (while not a CST)…
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Forward by Mike Cohn Scrum is a starting point. In fact, it’s a great starting point. But, as a framework rather than a full-blown methodology, Scrum is deliberately incomplete. Some things—such as the best technical practices to use—are left for individual teams to determine. This allows a team to create…
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We all do the crazy exercise of rating team members every year. And, looking back at a software development industry that's almost 50 years old, we know certain things for sure: Software is built by teams, not individuals. Moreover, each individual needs to actively collaborate to produce quality software. This…
To the foreign eye, a PMP is in one corner, and in the opposite corner we have an Agile project manager. This seems to be so because each advocates a different vision of how to run a project, and even a different conception about what a project really is. The…
