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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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5 Misconceptions About Scaling Agile

Xebia

When you hear the term "scaling Agile," what comes to mind? For many people, the first thing that comes to mind is doing everything bigger and faster—throwing more people onto a team of agile teams in order to speed things up. However, this is just one of the many misconceptions about scaling Agile.

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Adopting Scrum in a Management Team with a Just-In-Time Learning Approach

Agile Alliance

An approach to instilling Agile and Scrum knowledge based on a Just-In-Time strategy.

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AgileNCR: Empowering Knowledge Sharing and Business Agility

Xebia

This year, the conference took place virtually on the vFairs conference platform, attracting over 350 registrations from Agile enthusiasts, speakers, and volunteers from around the world. The conference has always focused on industry trends, best practices, and challenges, empowering enterprises on their journey toward business agility.

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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

Applying agile methods in an SAP project is recommended, as they provide flexibility, quicker adaptation to business requirements, and better customer engagement, resulting in successful implementations and increased customer satisfaction. However, this agile transformation in SAP projects presents both opportunities and challenges.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies. I recently moderated Adaptavist’s “Agile Back to Basics” roundtable, which included three authors of the Agile Manifesto.

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