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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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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO Business Intelligence

The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). It’s a certification aimed at senior project managers, agile professionals, product managers and owners, Scrum masters, and business analysts. Certified Project Management (CPM). The EC-Council was formed after the Sept.

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Agile 2: A New Hope

Dataconomy

On February 11-13, 2001, a group of senior programmers, project managers, and technical analysts met at the Snowbird ski resort in Utah. Their mission, sparked by numerous conversations between the various members over chat and at conferences, was to define a single movement that would end up radically shaping how.

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

.” A case in point: if you search the Shape Up ebook for “agile,” you get one lonely match (in Jason Fried’s Foreword ): Likewise, just one match if you search for “scrum” and “methodology.” ” In all cases, the point being made is, “Shape Up isn’t one of those!”

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