Buying a home is most people’s dream and requires some planning. All this is to provide a healthy environment for your family and enjoy the deserved comfort. The realtor helps you with this decision. As it is a major acquisition, some processes need to be completed between the search for the ideal property and the […]
Scrum is your Ally to Assess your Team’s Performance: Find Out Why
There are some agile metrics you can track to assess your team’s progress and implement improvements when needed. A good example is Scrum metrics. With each passing day, teams need to increase deliveries, even if the time does not increase at the same rate. To help meet this schedule, give teams more agility and productivity, […]
How to Create Team Motivation in a Company with Scrum
Scrum is a methodology based on sprints, very agile and flexible. Therefore, it has been gaining adherents among technology professionals in all areas of the market to team motivation. However, adopting the productivity model is not enough to guarantee your success. The manager of a team needs to be ready to become a leader if […]
What is the difference between Crystal and Scrum methodologies?
Crystal and Scrum methodologies have their importance in development and project management teams. Although you can find reasons to work simultaneously with them, it is vital to distinguish a few points on what are the differences between Crystal and Scrum. Perhaps Scrum is the most used agile methodology and the most trustworthy tool for bigger […]
Become a Digital Nomad with GitScrum
Digital nomads are professionals who are prepared to work from nearly anywhere around the world, provided that they have a good internet connection and appropriate work tools, so they move from one place to another, getting the opportunity to have new experiences and meet different places. It’s an ambition for many people, and a reality […]
Create Relevant Writing and Publishing Projects with Scrum and Reach the Heart of Your Readers
THE PUBLISHING BOOM The editorial market is booming. It has the potential to grow by USD 18.69 billion worldwide during 2021-2025*. There is a growing number of individuals interested in writing and publishing. Sometimes, they just don’t know how to create a book and plan a publishing project. Each day, more and more people and […]
The influence of Scrum Events in the development processes, and their impact over quality
Scrum is a framework widely used today for software development. It is said to be a framework because it doesn’t prescribe anything, it’s not a process or even a technique, and it’s perfectly adaptable. In Scrum, we can include several techniques used in other processes, that way we can always improve it. This type of […]
The Sucessful Roles of an Agile Coach Working with High-Standard Scrum Methodology
Do you need your team or company to be more productive? Many of them are looking for new tools to seek faster productivity. But there is a specific profession that is helping a handful of members to deliver more tasks and get involved with the team: the Agile Coach. And to be part of these […]
Scrum is your starting point to create and monitor powerful Inbound Marketing Campaigns
What is Inbound Marketing Inbound marketing is also known as “permission marketing”. For many decades, promotional marketing followed its traditional form, known as “outbound marketing”, which means the actions were directed at the audiences, and advertisers had to “go after the target buyers”, try to make them interested, no matter their previous receptivity. Outbound actions […]
Plan, produce and manage successful Events and Conventions with Scrum
Did you take a while to get off the ground with the events and conventions you organized? Or when you showed the project ready to the client, did he/she ask for changes that involved all the planning? This is a very common commercial pain in the events business. The best thing to do in this […]
Is it still worth to apply Design Thinking in a Project, or has Scrum taken its place?
Over time, many innovations have been increasing since the inception of the technology. The work has been one of the areas that have benefitted from some of these innovations, and Design Thinking brought some improvements for a vast of companies. In recent years, several approaches to solving problems in the corporate environment have emerged. In […]
Become an Exemplary Leader to Your Team with Scrum and Agile
Use the Scrum Framework to Become a better leader Leadership is a very rich topic, and it’s been discussed lately on the remote work context. There are several leadership styles and company profiles. So, it’s not possible to state that one single model or formula is suitable for every business and team. Each organization has […]
Scrum and Agile for Dummies – Benefits you shouldn’t miss to make your work better
If you’re interested in project management because it can help your business achieve goals, but you still have no idea what these terms are – Scrum and Agile, and what they have to do with you, this article is for you. We know they may sound difficult, but the fact is that you should not […]
How the Scrum Master motivates Agile Teams fostering self-organization
One of the problems in an Agile Team is gathering all members into a single and direct goal. And the reason could be the lack of organization that is damaging the outcomes of the company. Meanwhile, some tools are there to help teams in different areas and projects, such as Scrum. And those who master […]
Scrum and Waterfall: How Changes Can Impact Your Business
Just right before Scrum and some other Agile methodologies came to rise, there was a traditional approach to lead teams: the Waterfall Method. Why was it important to change from a static method to a more agile, efficient tool? Needless to say that Waterfall methodology had its role and it was not ruled out to […]
Make your company a Great Place to Work with Scrum and Agile
WHAT IS A GPTW – “GREAT PLACE TO WORK” “Great Place to Work™” (GPTW) is a well-recognized certification, created by a global people analytics and consulting firm with the identical name. They work with companies all over the world, getting access to their reports, employees assessments, and surveys, with the Trust Index™, which they use […]
What are the leadership roles of a Scrum Master and an Agile Coach?
We’ve already seen definitions of Scrum and Agile. But now we are about to fly over some experts who are truly into Scrum and Agile methods, such as Scrum Master and Agile Coach. Both of them are evolutions of the practices of these methodologies and sometimes they might work separately or together. Some terms related […]
Scaling Scrum for People and Enterprise’s Alignment
One of the reasons for the success of a company is the enterprise’s alignment with workers. Although there are important positions in every enterprise, the joint of all members to one goal can bring outstanding results, when everyone understands the culture of the organization, as well as feels part of a good work environment. And […]
What are the obstacles to use Scrum?
Agile practices have not been new for some time. Several companies already use Scrum and other agile practices as an innovative Framework, geared towards business needs. However, there are some obstacles to using Scrum in teams. What is also not new is that, before using these practices and tools, many organizations. Especially those that do […]
5 Best Scrum Practices in an Organization
Scrum practices are definitely the most popular framework in project management. You’ve seen how you can use it and what are some branches of Scrum practice to improve your team’s performance. However, when you’re scaling scum, you are giving a wild jump to encourage everyone in your team to develop products in a timely and […]
How to use Product Backlogs to Improve your Team’s Productivity
In its literal meaning, backlog means “an accumulation of something, especially uncompleted work or matters that you need to deal with”. In the management world, you may find another definition that is the most used by anyone who works with projects: several items and lists of things to do. But this term came from the […]
Scrum and Agile: understand these concepts and how they can change the way your team reaches results
In the team’s work world, Agile methodology and Scrum are two words that are very popular within its environment. Many project management teams, tasks leaders, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, etc, manage both of them, and sometimes you might get confused when you work them simultaneously. But before we go deeper into these details, you need […]
Use the Nexus Framework to Scale Scrum with Positive Impacts to your Team and Work
Scrum is unarguably the best agile way to improve and bring better performance to your team. In order to oversee new procedures to scale Scrum in project management, Scrum[dot]org has brought the Nexus Framework to sustain products on the scale. In this article, you will understand what is the Nexus Framework and how you can […]
Understand the difference between Large Scale Scrum and Scrum of Scrums to succeed in huge projects
As we’ve discussed in a previous post on Large at Scale Scrum, LeSS is the framework that seeks to apply the principles and ideals of scrum in a large-scale enterprise context as simply as possible through defined rules and guides. Its simplicity makes Large at Scale (LeSS) earn the label of a “barely sufficient” framework. […]
5 Scrum Values to change a Business for good!
We already brought some of Scrum’s inception and its main principles. There are some branches of this method that are applicable to many teams or only to a few of them. You probably remember that the Scrum conception came into project management from rugby. Like a rugby team preparing for a match, Scrum helps Agile […]
Scrum: How Teams Speed Up Productivity
Scrum is extensively used by software companies for product development. Therefore, you can apply this project management framework to any project that has complex requirements, aggressive deadlines, and a generous amount of uniqueness. This framework is specially designed for small and close-knit teams developing complex software products. But it was during the early 2000s that […]
Kanban vs Scrum: What is the difference?
When we talk about project management, the words “Scrum” and “Kanban” are increasingly recurrent and sometimes are confused. With that said, we notice the meaning of each term and its main virtues to avoid misunderstandings and enable you to make the best choices for your team of developers. Agile methodologies emerged when the waterfall method […]
5 Steps to Execute a Scrum Methodology in your Project
You already know that using Scrum in your team is a must-want scenario in every single new task. You want a more fluid workflow and it is a reality that you might find it difficult to not implement any of Scrum methodology. “How can I start a Scrum move in my project”?, “How do I […]
Scrum and Rugby – How the Game Inspired the Name
SCRUM AT RUGBY Scrum is a command for restarting the rugby game: players from the two teams get together with heads down and push each other to win possession. The term comes from the English word ‘scrimmage (skirmish). The scrum applies for penalty charges. Rugby players at the stadium. WHY DID THE GAME INSPIRE THE […]
User Stories: Valuable Innovations for Customers
Innovation has become worn jargon in the market today. We use it widely, sometimes inappropriately, but the point is it is the main challenge for companies of all areas. In a competitive world, innovative processes can determine marketing leaders, and innovative products can grant leadership for some time (until they get surpassed or imitated).