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A Scrum Master Is Not A Project Manager By Another Name
Product owner
ScrumMaster has to coach the product owner to understand how to achieve the goals and how to continually adapt and prioritize the backlog. The ScrumMaster is the link between the product owner and the team.
Protecting the team from business noise
There is often a lot of noise from within the business, and it's down to the product owner and the ScrumMaster to protect the team from that noise. Changes in what is being developed should be communicated via the product owner and nobody else.
Project manager versus ScrumMaster
Traditionally, the project manager is a leader, a decision maker, a planner, someone who manages the project and the team and is the person accountable to the business for accomplishing the project objectives. The ScrumMaster's role is more that of coach and facilitator, a role…
Erik Davis - On Psychedelics
Some recent ayahuasca research
some recent ayahuasca research by neuroscientists working in South America so exciting. Though a powerful hallucinogen, ayahuasca is not illegal in Brazil, where the tea is used by urban professionals as well as by traditional and Mestizo populations, and has been integrated to…
Gamasutra - Scrum And Long Term Project Planning For Video Games
Agile does plan for the long term
One of the common misunderstandings of agile is that it avoids any long-term planning in favor of only planning a few weeks out. What agile does not do is support highly detailed long term plans up front. Agile methodologies, like Scrum, focus on continual planning for the…
Scrum (software Development) - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Sprint backlog (scrum)
The sprint backlog is the list of work the Development Team must address during the next sprint. The list is derived by selecting stories/features from the top of the product backlog until the Development Team feels it has enough work to fill the sprint. This is done by the…
The sprint backlog is broken down into tasks (scrum)
The stories/features are broken down into tasks by the Development Team, which, as a best practice, should normally be between four and sixteen hours of work. With this level of detail the Development Team understands exactly what to do, and potentially, anyone can pick a task…
Scrum originates from the theories of nonaka and takeuchi
Scrum was first defined as "a flexible, holistic product development strategy where a development team works as a unit to reach a common goal" as opposed to a "traditional, sequential approach" in 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka in the "New New Product Development…
Sprint planning meeting (scrum)
At the beginning of the sprint cycle (every 7–30 days), a "Sprint planning meeting" is held: Select what work is to be done Prepare the Sprint Backlog that details the time it will take to do that work, with the entire team Identify and communicate how much of the work is…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
You can't harvest before you plant
They are the “Private Victories,” the essence of character growth. Private victories precede public victories. You can’t invert that process anymore than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. It’s inside-out. As you become truly independent, you have the foundation for…
The Diggicore Project: Aggregating And Mining The World Of Open Access Articles
Data mining scientific publications
To promote the dataset usage, the DiggiCORE team has organised the 1st, 2nd and 3rd International Workshops on Mining Scientific Publications at JCDL 2012, JCDL 2013 and DL 2014 with the aim to bring the community of researchers in this area together.
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
Opening the black box of innovation
The theories of management that Mark had studied treat innovation like a “black box” by focusing on the structures companies need to put in place to form internal startup teams. But Mark found himself working inside the black box—and in need of guidance. What Mark was missing…
Innovation can be managed
One remarkable part of the SnapTax story is what the team leaders said when I asked them to account for their unlikely success. Did they hire superstar entrepreneurs from outside the company? No, they assembled a team from within Intuit. Did they face constant meddling from…