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Working as both a Developer and as a ScrumMaster has skewed my perspective a bit to be dev-team centric, so I recently took SolutionsIQ’s Certified Product Owner course to learn more about the scrum software development process through the eyes of a Product Owner. The course was laid out in a novel way – as a [...]
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We, here at 2Paths, are avid Agile Software Development and SCRUM practitioners. SCRUM works very well in the ideal project: from five to nine developers and one on-site Product Owner. But how well does this work with large organizations, especially those that are overseas? We recently had the pleasure of working on a project with the OECD, [...]
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Many people within technology and development environments are fully aware of the limitations and frustrations with traditional project management techniques. Most frustrations boil down to a breakdown in communication, eg: what the customer wants is not necessarily what the programmer hears. Communication is key in solving complex problems and all too often barriers are [...]
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Last month I attended a ScrumMaster course given by Ken Schwaber, one of the founders of Scrum. Ken is a reasonably unassuming man with a casual demeanour and the uncanny ability to help people shoot themselves in the foot by dragging them head first into self awareness of their own roadblocks and limitations in their [...]
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I had the privilege of attending a "Certified ScrumMaster" course being taught by Ken Schwaber who is one of the co-founders of the Scrum process. I've been using the scrum process for a few years and felt fairly confident in my ability to "live" the principles of Scrum but all it took was one exercise to smack me back to reality.
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