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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 20

Ten Key Benefits of Scrum

In This Chapter

arrow Improving results

arrow Reducing risk

arrow Making reporting easy

arrow Ensuring that projects are rewarding

Here are ten important benefits that scrum provides to organizations, teams, products, and individuals.

remember To take advantage of scrum benefits, you need to trust in empiricism, find out more about the scrum framework by using it, and continually inspect and adapt your implementation of scrum.

Better Quality

Projects exist to accomplish a vision or goal. Scrum provides the framework for continual feedback and exposure to make sure that quality is as high as possible. Scrum helps ensure quality by the following practices:

  • Defining and elaborating on requirements just in time so that knowledge of product features is as relevant as possible
  • Incorporating daily testing and product owner feedback into the development process, allowing the development team to address issues while they’re fresh
  • Regular and continuous improvement of scrum team output ...
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