Scrum: Where Did Rapid Application Development Come From?
IEEE Computer published an issue on agile development in 2003. Of particular interest is an article on the history of iterative development, highly recommended for anyone interested in the background Agile methods. Most of the “Rapid Application Development...Scrum Evolution: Type A, B, and C Sprints
One of the key influences that led to creation of the first Scrum was a paper on the Japanese way of new product development by Takeuchi and Nonaka [2]. This paper had a chart showing product development separated into silo’s (Type A), phases slightly...
Scrum: Subsumption Architecture and Emergent Behavior
PicBot exhibiting emergent behavior Yesterday’s posting on the birth of Scrum generated some questions on Rodney Brooks’ subsumption architecture. One could argue that Agile processes emerge architectures by building the simplest possible thing and...SCRUM: Pigs and Chickens
Pig Snouts at bullysticks.com Ken Schwaber started the pigs and chickens story in the early days of Scrum. The terminology is now under deep discussion in the newsgroups: A chicken and a pig were brainstorming… Chicken: Let’s start a restaurant! Pig: What...6 Agile Ways To Increase Employee Engagement
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