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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. Others do not.

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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.

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How employers can inspire software developers

CIO Business Intelligence

An ideal working environment for this is based on three pillars: autonomy, collaboration and agility. Transparency plays a key role here: Decisions must be documented and clearly communicated to ensure accountability. A specific document defines clear, measurable goals and ensures that the team works towards them.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Agile project management definition Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle.

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Scrumfall: When Agile becomes Waterfall by another name

CIO Business Intelligence

The Church of Agile is being corrupted from within by institutional forces that have refused or been unable to adapt to the radical humanity embodied in its collaborative, self-organizing, cross-functional teams. A hollowed-out husk of Scrum concealing taskmasters of Waterfall is the Trojan Horse of this betrayal. A sham of true Scrum.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies. I recently moderated Adaptavist’s “Agile Back to Basics” roundtable, which included three authors of the Agile Manifesto.

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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO Business Intelligence

Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures. This dip delays when the business can start realizing the value delivered.