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Traditional project management methodologies have always tried to control the amount of change within a project. Change management procedures, meticulously scripted legal contracts and rigorous budget policies, are designed to fend change off as long as possible and...

Traditional project management methodologies do a very good job at keeping the customer away. In fact, customer involvement in what was deemed completely successful projects amounted to merely two instances: once at the beginning and one at the end of a project. In...

Traditional project management methodologies, such as PMP or Prince 2, define stakeholders as someone impacted or affected by the project. Different project management methodologies have different definitions. In Scrum everything is different. Officially, scrum only...

Although there is no formal project manager position in agile projects, under a scrum model, project management responsibilities are fulfilled through the following roles. Product owner: The product owner has ownership of the why, the what and the when of a product....

Early delivery of working software (and, for more and more organizations, working products) is one of the biggest benefits of using agile approaches. Delivering working products early in a project can allow higher ROI. They let development teams prove whether...

Manifesto for Agile Software Development* We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive...

The scrum framework consists of five events. Each event provides the scrum team transparency into either the product or their processes to enable regular inspection and immediate adaptation. We have also found several common agile practices that complement and...

Project progress should be visible and measurable in order to be useful. In addition to the three scrum artifacts (product backlog, sprint backlog and the increment), agile project teams often use three additional artifacts (product vision statement, product roadmap...

The Roadmap to Value is a high-level view of an agile project. The stages of the Roadmap to Value are described in the list following the diagram:   In Stage 1, the product owner identifies the product vision. The product vision is a definition of what your product...

The development team, also often just called dev team, arguably holds the most vital role in any agile process. While it is the ultimate aim of every scrum master to make his own role redundant and most teams could dysfunctionally continue their work without a product...

Lately, we have been talking about the different roles on a scrum team. Another important scrum role is the product owner. The product owner is the most difficult to equate to a specific traditional project management role, and is therefore sometimes the most...