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I just came across a fun article called, “The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Scrum.” It’s about the parallels between agile and music.

If you don’t know much about SCRUM and haven’t seen some of David Rodriguez’s prior posts about the Agile Process, let me preface this piece with a definition. According to this definition of SCRUM by PCMAG.COM, SCRUM is “an agile software development methodology developed by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland in the mid-1990s. Scrum is based on a “Sprint,” which is a 30-day period for delivering a working part of hte system. Each Sprint starts with a two to three-hour planning session that includes the customer (product owner), the facilitator (Scrummaster) and the cross-functional team. The Customer describes the highest priority in the backlog, and after the team agrees on how much of it to do, it is left alone to do it. To keep the team synchronized, there is a 15-minute meeting every day. At the end of the Sprint, the results are delivered and reviewed, and the next Sprint is started.”

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Dawn Gartin, a Technical Trainer at Inovis, shows a neat trick and talks about the 2008 Inovis Education Services Roadshow.

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