Stand up meetings – also called Scrum meetings – are an important factor of Scrum project management. Scrum is a form of agile project management that breaks projects down into smaller, easier to manage chunks that are completed as sprints.
Daily Scrum meetings are important as the method is so changeable. They ensure that everybody is on track and minimise the chances of two team members performing the same task. However, because they are daily they must be kept short and so Scrum meetings are usually stand up meetings.
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The Scrum process is explained in the graphic below:
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What Is Agile Project Management?
Why Stand Up?
We have already established that stand up meetings are an important part of Scrum as they help keep project on track. But why stand up? Why not have a 15 minute sit down meeting? Read the rest of "Stand Up Meetings – Learning from Scrum & Agile Project Management"
Posted by Andy Trainer in News, Project Management, Software Testing on February 17th, 2012| No Comments »
Agile principles are now being applied to software development, software testing and project management, but what are the basic principles that Agile is based on?
All Agile methods were designed around a simple premise; the smaller the project, the greater the success rate. For agile to be successful it must be both quick and simple.
In 2001 the Agile Manifesto was born. Representatives from several Agile methodologies (including SCRUM, eXtreme Programming & DSDM) came together and devised a set of values and principles that any Agile methodology should adhere to. These values and principles would increase the success rate as projects would be constantly revised to meet customer requirements.
We now offer the certified Agile Project Management Training, please see our Agile Project Management Foundation Training and Agile Project Management Practitioner Training courses in Brighton, Sussex.
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Posted by Andy Trainer in News, Project Management, Software Testing on May 20th, 2011| No Comments »
No Sound on YouTube Video on Mac – image by heather buckley
Just a very quick post as this has been driving me mad since I got my new Power Mac using OSX. I had sound on the computer for most things but no sound on YouTube and some Flash animation.
Having a look around for the answer, as usual I was presented with lots of complicated fixes. I chose the simplest and it worked straight away with out having to download anything dubious!
Q: How do I get sound on Youtube on my Mac?
A: delete the – /Library/Preferences/Macromedia folder
Simples ;)
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No Sound on Mac Update
Some people may find that after installing Mac OS X 10.5.6 update your Mac may appear to have lost it’s sound. For some reason the update sets the sound output to “Headphones” instead of “Internal speakers”. You will need to set it back to “Internal speakers” to get the sound back.
Posted by Heather Buckley in News, Software Testing on March 2nd, 2011| 11 Comments »
