The Best Scrum Tool —Automating the Entire Process in One Single Page

The Best Scrum Tool —Automating the Entire Process in One Single Page

The Scrum Process Canvas is a Scrum management tool. It presents actionable Scrum activities in a one-page process canvas. Team members perform activities to manage and complete software projects. The Scrum process Canvas is fully customizable, allowing you to add additional activities (such as certain meetings) and process deliverables (such as domain-specific logs) to the Scrum process to meet your specific project needs.

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Rules of Scrum — Sprint

Rules of Scrum — Sprint

According to Scrum.org, a Sprint is a “month or less framework within which a “completed”, usable and potentially releasable product increment is created. The duration of a Sprint is consistent throughout the development effort. A new Sprint begins immediately after the previous Sprint ends…….

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Rules of Scrum Ceremonies — Sprint Retrospective Meeting

Rules of Scrum Ceremonies — Sprint Retrospective Meeting

The Sprint Retrospective occurs after the Sprint Review and before the next Sprint is scheduled. For a one-month sprint, this is a three-hour meeting at most. The retrospective meeting is basically an “improvement” meeting to find ways and means to identify potential pitfalls, past mistakes, and seek new ways to avoid them, with all people in attendance – product owners, Scrum Masters, development team members, and optionally with stakeholders.

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Scrum Process: From Product Backlog Items to Shippable Product Increment

Scrum Process: From Product Backlog Items to Shippable Product Increment

The objective of the day-to-day work of a sprint is to create shippable product increment for the product in a form that can be delivered to a customer or user. Within the context of a single sprint, a product increment or shippable increment means that a work product has been developed, integrated, tested, and documented according to the project definition of done and is deemed ready to release.

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Scrum Guide — How To Organize Retrospective Meeting

Scrum Guide — How To Organize Retrospective Meeting

The Sprint Retrospective occurs after the Sprint Review and prior to the next Sprint Planning. This is at most a three-hour meeting for one-month Sprints. The retrospective session is basically an “improvement” meeting held to find ways and means to identify potential pitfalls, past mistakes, and seek out new ways to avoid those mistakes, which are attended by all — the product owner, scrum master, development team members, and optionally with the stakeholders.

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Lean + Agile Approach for Software Development

Lean + Agile Approach for Software Development

Although often treated as distinct methodologies, both Agile and Lean are rooted in similar values. These methodologies continue to evolve as they expand into new industries, applications, and opportunities, and many organizations have had amazing success in drawing on elements of both. Using Lean’s systems thinking and continuous improvement approach, agile development practices can be used to help organizations build healthy, innovative organizations that can sustainably deliver customer value.

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