Scrum: How to Refine Product Backlog?

Scrum: How to Refine Product Backlog?

Not all items in the product backlog will be of the same size and level of detail (i.e. features/ eprics/ user stories and tasks) at the same time. PBIs that we plan to work on soon should be at the top of the backlog, smaller in size, and very detailed so that they can be worked on in the near-term sprint. PBIs that we won’t be working on for some time should be at the bottom of the backlog, larger, and less detailed.

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Scrum: Do you need a vision statement?

Scrum: Do you need a vision statement?

A vision statement identifies where the organization wants or intends to be in future or where it should be to best meet the needs of the stakeholders. Every project needs a vision to steer itself in a proper direction. A vision serves as a guide for choosing the current as well as future course of actions.

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Scrum Product Owner: The Role and Responsibilities

Scrum Product Owner: The Role and Responsibilities

A Product Owner is responsible for telling what should be developed and the order of items that needs to be fulfilled. You can consider him as the sole authority that would tell the rest of the team what they need to create and which features should come first. In short, he is the one who tells the other members of the team about what they should be coming up with.

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How to Scrum: A Practical Guide

How to Scrum: A Practical Guide

Scrum is a framework for developing and maintaining complex products and is an incremental, iterative development process. In this framework, the entire development process consists of several short iteration cycles, a short iteration cycle called a Sprint, and each Sprint is 2 to 4 weeks long.

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The Brief of History of Scrum

The Brief of History of Scrum

The history of the Scrum method starts in 1986. That year, two Japanese business experts introduced the term in the context of product development. Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka published the article, “New New Product Development Game” (the double “New” is indeed part of the title) in the Harvard Business Review. The authors described a new approach to commercial product development that would increase speed and flexibility. Their inspiration came from case studies from manufacturing firms in the automotive, photocopier, and printer industries.

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How is Scrum Related to Agile Manifesto?

How is Scrum Related to Agile Manifesto?

The Agile Manifesto details some fundamental agile philosophies, one of which is a preference for Empirical Process control — which maintains that knowledge is derived from experience and decision making is based on what is known. Scrum is an Empirical Process based on inspection, adaptation, and transparency. gave the name “Agile” to the movement.

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