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Scaling Scrum A Serial Scrum Team The simplest situation of doing product development with Scrum is to have one Product Backlog capturing the desirements for that Product, and having one Scrum Team implementing that Product Backlog in Sprints. The Development Team has all skills to turn several Product Backlog items into Done per Sprint upon the definition of Done. The true grit of IT troubleshooting Credit: iStockphoto Troubleshooting brings out the armchair quarterback in most IT pros, especially during emergent and highly visible outages. After all, we love a tough problem, and it's easy to gloss over a situation from a disassociated position and say you could have solved it better, faster, or with less fallout. We even do it to ourselves: How many times have we said that if we only knew then what we know now, we would have done differently?
Blogs If you are a project manager or a program manager, or aspiring to be, one of the best project management tools you can add to your toolbox is the Kanban. In fact, if somebody were to ask me, what’s the single best way to exponentially improve project execution, I would probably say, the answer is Kanban. (Well, I might first say, get my book, Getting Results the Agile Way, and adopt Agile Results Our Development Process: 50 Months of Evolution Michael Dubakov, TargetProcess FounderMay, 2012 Context We create TargetProcess, quite large web application. Our development team is co-located. Observations
What Are the Odds That Stats Would Be This Popular? “Most of my life I went to parties and heard a little groan when people heard what I did,” says Robert Tibshirani, a statistics professor at Stanford University. “Now they’re all excited to meet me.” It’s not because of a new after-shave.
Performance Appraisals in Agile Home » Articles, Knowledge 9 May 2012 No Comment Most of us do the exercise of rating team members every year even if we know that software is built by teams, not individuals. Moreoever, each individual needs to actively collaborate to produce quality software. Big Data Talent War: 10 Analytics Job Trends A gap is emerging among data-savvy professionals, with big-data-analysis and predictive skills trumping routine business-intelligence and information-management talents. 1 of 12 10 Career-Changing Analytics And Big-Data Job TrendsThere's a war on to attract and retain business intelligence (BI) and information management (IM) professionals.
Agile Development Practices: How Anyone Can Boost Productivity With Scrum Popular Today in Business: All Popular Articles Ever heard of Scrum…or even agile development practices for that matter? If you’re a content marketing professional like me, a doctor or a firefighter, a teacher or an accountant, the answer is probably no. That’s because scrum isn’t a word you’re going to hear at cocktail parties (not fun ones anyway) unless you’re a software engineer or a rugby player. And, while I wouldn’t suggest dropping the scrum-bomb in casual conversation, this is one five-letter word you should not only add to your vocabulary, but also incorporate into your work.