Technical Debt for PMs

by Victor Szalvay | 8 Comments | 18 Sep 2012 | Projects At Work, Agile, Scrum, Project Management, tech, PAW

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Technical debt describes the cumulative consequences of cutting corners in software development, but it escapes the attention of many project managers as they focus on scope and schedule. That’s a mistake because it impacts both. Here are questions to help you ascertain the real state of technical affairs.

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Glossary of Scrum Terms

by Victor Szalvay | 22 Comments | 12 Mar 2007 | what is scrum, adopting scrum

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This glossary of Scrum Terms was published in November 2005. As a community, do we need to make any changes or additions to this list?

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Poisonous Scrum Anti-Patterns

by Victor Szalvay | 2 Comments | 19 Jun 2006 |

Cowboy_vic My colleagues and I work with a number of organizations implementing agile and Scrum. We are starting to see patterns (and anti-patterns) emerge in the way in which many companies go about transitioning their products to Scrum. Two of these patter...

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