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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

CIO

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. This highly adopted framework utilizes short iterations of work, called sprints, and daily meetings, called scrums, to tackle discrete portions of a project in succession until the project is complete. Others do not.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

CIO

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explained The Scaled Agile Framework encompasses a set of principles, processes, and best practices that helps larger organizations adopt agile methodologies , such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum , to deliver high-quality products and services faster.

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Agile project management: Principles, benefits, tools, tips, and when to make the switch

CIO

Agile project management definition Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle.

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How Rocket Mortgage Used Scaled Agile and Scrum to Dominate the Mortgage Industry

Agile Alliance

In 2000 Quicken Loans was the first company to do mortgages online and launched its Rocket Mortgage product in 2016 during the Super Bowl, quickly becoming the largest mortgage originator in the US. The post How Rocket Mortgage Used Scaled Agile and Scrum to Dominate the Mortgage Industry first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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7 tell-tale signs of fake agile

CIO

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Too often, an organization may launch something that looks like an agile program, calls itself an agile program, claims to operate like an agile program, yet really isn’t an agile program in the least.

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Agility Meets SAP

Xebia

In this era of digital transformation, companies face the challenge of quickly adapting to changing market requirements while implementing complex enterprise solutions like SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing). For example, a procurement process can be implemented in SAP within a company.

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From pyramid to communities: How pharma company reinvented themselves using Scrum

Agile Alliance

A pharmaceutical company (Roche Pharma Finland Oy) decided to transform their Operating model in late 2018. The CEO of the company had three primary goals for the change: To become more customer-driven instead of being product-centric To transform the organisation from a pyramid … Continued.

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