The students resolve their own conflicts, they give themselves time limits to accomplish tasks and they even are allowed to disagree with the teacher if they explain their reasoning. They have the opportunity to make decisions, and thus learn how to make good decisions.
(Source: TechTarget, Can Scrum Change The World?)
Terrific example of applying successful methodologies found in technology to non-technology industries. In this case, education.
The Daily Scrum, Episode 5 is now available for download in iTunes! In this episode Mike’s back and we talk about building rockets and becoming an Agile evangelist.
This is the paranoia of a man who is massively self-delusional and inherently insecure about his own background amongst his peers which is how this thing came to be in the first place.
The Daily Scrum, Episode 4 is now available for download in iTunes! In this episode Wil goes solo and talks about three specific topics based on Ken Schwaber’s book and other Agile resources around the web.
I’ve been on an Agile, and more specifically Scrum, binge lately. Learning about Agile project management, talking about Scrum, and looking at courses to help round out my understanding. Since I work with a lot of developers and testers and QA folk, it’s important to better learn Agile to help me communicate to clients in a more timely fashion.
But, with Agile focused on regular iterations, and with these iterations being implementable or product-ready, does this mean there’s more work for marketing and public relations teams?
I mean, if there are more releases, don’t we have to communicate more with our clients?