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Everyone is talking about "Agile Development," "Adopting Scrum," and "Being Lean!" ... What's all the buzz?
Agility is a Value System. It emphasizes People, Collaboration, Results, and Responsiveness. Agility is fundamentally a mindset, which includes first focusing on principles and values, and then practices. It’s not simply about adopting some collection of process roles, activities, or templates!
Scrum is a proven lean and agile approach to delivering results, a simple “inspect and adapt” framework used to organize work for maximum efficiency and effectiveness using three roles, three ceremonies, and three artifacts. Lean Thinking involves a collection of principles that form a foundation for Scrum.
The three roles are...
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IT workers continued to experience lower unemploymentrates than the general labor force in 1Q:09. While the overall unemployment rate was 8.4%, it was less for most IT occupations. And the unemployment rate was significantly lower-about half...
It's never easy to get the green light for anew tech projectand today's economic environment has made justifying an IT initiative even more challenging. To win support and budget for new projects you need to 1) focus on the issues most important to senior management: increasing /creating revenue and 2) reducing business costs. 