Scrum

The most successful product deliveries involve customer-focused business and technical people working together daily throughout the discovery and development of the product. Strong product ownership is what drives this. Scrum is an effective framework for aligning what we traditionally have referred to as the “two sides of the organization–IT and the business.” 

What are your agile questions? Whether it’s transitioning from traditional project management, managing vendor contracts, estimation and more, Mr. Agile® has answers. Today’s blog post answers the question: “Where does a business analyst fit on a scrum team?” Mr. Agile® says, “There is no role called business analyst on a scrum team. There’s a…”

What are your agile questions? Whether it’s transitioning from traditional project management, managing vendor contracts, estimation and more, Mr. Agile® has answers. Today’s blog post answers the question: “How do you include manual testing in scrum?” Mr. Agile® says, “The first question I would ask is: Why are you doing the manual testing?…”

What are your agile questions? Whether it’s transitioning from traditional project management, managing vendor contracts, estimation and more, Mr. Agile® has answers. Today’s blog post answers the question: “Can scrum teams change their sprint length?” Mr. Agile® says, “They can but it isn’t free…”

What are your agile questions? Whether it’s transitioning from traditional project management, managing vendor contracts, estimation and more, Mr. Agile® has answers. Today’s blog post answers the question: “How do Gantt charts work with scrum?” Mr. Agile® says, “Gantt charts are just a visualization, so I think many times people think that…”

Scrum teams should be purpose-driven in their development. Rather than focusing on how many items get completed during a sprint, the focus should be more on achieving overarching business goals for delivering value to the customer. Scrum is also all about getting to done. There’s no partial credit. Shippable work is either done, or it isn’t.

Technology is the largest industry in the San Diego job market. Health care and research are also in the top five, making the area a prime location to empower your career with Scrum knowledge.

The tech sector is beginning to boom in Utah. Where there is tech, there is scrum, an agile framework for delivering customer value early and often. Here we’ll cover the current state of scrum in Utah, we will give you the skinny on the current Utah job market, the Utah agile community, and new scrum certification opportunities in Utah.

So, you have decided to use scrum for your product development, but you’re not quite sure where and how to start or what are the critical items you need to address before starting. As you prepare for the new year, it’s a great time to pause and make sure you begin with clear purpose and expectations in your next endeavor.

Finding a qualified scrum master for a team can be challenging.  Unlike traditional interview approaches, where uncertainty is quite high about whether the candidate will fit and do the job well, an agile approach to interviewing works really well. Here is an approach...

Scrum improves the quality of your product development cycle. Explore how you can drastically decrease defects using scrum as your framework.