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Scrum For Dummies
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Scrum For Dummies

by Mark C. Layton
April 2015
Beginner
408 pages
10h 1m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 7

Software Development

In This Chapter

arrow Taking advantage of software development’s flexibility

arrow Refactoring for optimization and simplification

arrow Harnessing change in a variety of software industries

“You don’t actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it ‘done.’ ”

— David Allen

Chapter 1 explains the origins of scrum having been the application of concepts outlined in a 1986 Harvard Business Review article entitled “The New New Product Development Game.” Software development is the context within which scrum creators formalized agile values and principles and within which the scrum framework was born and raised. Therefore, it’s no surprise that scrum is easily applied to this industry.

technicalstuff The “New New Product Development Game” applied the game of rugby to new product development in the context of the need for increased speed and flexibility. In contrast to a relay race, the article ...

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