Scrum is an agile software development framework for managing software projects or application development. Agile just means an iterative, incremental development approach with realistic calculations and self-planned approach. A key principle of Scrum is its recognition that during a project the customers can change their minds about what they want and need.
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The past years I have been experimenting a lot with scrum in our offshore and nearshore cooperations. One of the most challenging parts of distributed scrum (the variant of scrum where team members cooperate from different locations) is organizing the …
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Some years ago the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) published the technical report CMMI or Agile: Why Not Embrace Both, to describe that CMMI and agile can co-exist. I was surprised that such a report was needed. All the projects that …
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Outsourcing is the process through which a company hires another company to provide labour or to play some function for them instead of using their own staff to carry out the function. Today, outsourcing is becoming the order of the …
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Last week, I gave a presentation at the Technical University in Delft and one of my topics was ’empathy’. I always get some questioning faces when I present a slide with a definition of empathy on it. Normally, technologists get taught about …
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