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  Self-organization is a concept that is central to the Scrum Framework. For all its significance, it is remarkably hard to define. It is often confused with “self-management”, or the idea that teams should make their own decisions. Instead, self-organization is the process by which order arises spontaneously from something that is initially disorganized (Camazine, 2001). This distinction may seem trivial, but it helps us understand two essential truths about Scrum. The first is how it uses self-organization to act as a lever to make organizations more agile. The second is how Scrum Teams require a high degree of self-management to make that lever work. Unfortunately, we’ve found that many Scrum Teams struggle to self-organize at all. And that easily leads to Zombie Scrum: something that may look like Scrum from a distance but lacks the beating heart. In this post, we address one common reason for this: the (forced) use of off-the-shelf solutions and best practices. Signs to watch ...

The Jenkins Contributor Summit brings together current and future contributors to the Jenkins project. We’re hosting an online summit this year to encourage contributors from around the world to meet, discuss, and plan for the future. The Contributor Summit will be Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 through Thursday, February 25, 2021. The summit brings together community members to learn, meet, and help shape the future of Jenkins. In the Jenkins commmunity we value all types and sizes of contributions and love to welcome new participants. Format The online format allows greater flexibility for meeting times and topics. Contributors will meet to discuss specific topics in smaller groups at times that are convenient for those in the meeting. Security - Daniel Beck ...

ZenTao team has developed its own open-source automation testing framework ZTF and universal data generator ZenData, which together with ZenTao project management software constitute a professional automation testing solution that can help users realize large-scale automation testing and improve testing efficiency. ZenTao, ZTF, and ZenData are independent and complementary  t o each other. Together with the Jenkins continuous integration platform, as well as JUnit, Selenium, and other unit and automation testing frameworks and tools, they form a complete automation testing solution. Users can use Jenkins to drive ZTF to execute certain types of automated tests, and scripts get structured test data by accessing data files or API interfaces generated by ZenData during the testing process, thus realizing the purpose of separating data and scripts. ZTF automation testing framework ZenTao Testing Framework, or ZTF for short, is an open-source automation test management framework. Compar...

Sure enough, nearly everybody understands that technology is evolving at a fast rate in today’s technologically advanced environment. Seeing alternative technologies often surpassing each other with daily updates & developments has become very common. In the midst of all this, there is an area that is influenced a lot by the tech world’s unpredictable existence, and that is Programming Language! Yeah, the most important requirement for   virtually any discipline is a programming language, whether it be web creation, computer learning, data science, or some other. And, every year, we see how the rating of these programming languages fluctuates among developers according to their demand & popularity. In the meantime, to remain relevant in the tech industry, you need to be updated with all these new developments and Programming Language indices. In particular, beginners are highly expected to consider many main factors before opting out for a specific programming language, suc...

  In one of my recent assignments, I was working with a Scrum Team on a new development project for a large organisation. The conditions were challenging: there were 10+ Scrum Teams working on an entirely new product, and half of those teams (our team included) had started less than a year ago. Meanwhile, the organisation was in full swing adopting an agile way of working based on the Scrum framework. For me as Scrum Master, this was a great opportunity to help out supporting the team, the Product Owner and the organization in delivering value to their customers. The case The pressure on the project was intense on all levels. Management was looking for status information to steer on. Instead of working with the teams and getting involved with their work, they helped themselves to the readily availa...

 There are so many using agile methodology indeed for now, and for those very big companies, they do it in Agile together with their own ideas, and what’s more, is that developing a management platform online or offline. What I would like to introduce is that our own company is using it as the methodology, and do practices based on Scrum. And what’s funnier is that our main product ZenTao - An Application Lifecycle Management tool which we use ourselves to do collaborations. First of all, I need to introduce our team. We are a software developing company locates in Qingdao, China and there are about 70 employees for now. It’s not a small team indeed, but we implement agile quite handy. We did restructure our organization based on Ameba which was very first proposed by INAMORI KAZUO from KYOCERA about 6 years ago. Ameba focuses more on organizational structure in an Agile way and now it has been very popular i...

The Scrum Framework was developed by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland in the 1990s and first formalized in 1995 to address the inherent complexity of product and software development. More recently, the Scrum Framework is being applied successfully to complex problems in a wide variety of domains, like marketing, organizational change, and scientific research. The Scrum Framework is built on three pillars that allow empirical control: Transparency: you gather data — like metrics, feedback on the product, and other experiences — to find out what is going on; Inspection: you inspect the progress with everyone involved and decide what that means for your ambitions and work together; Adaptation: you make changes that you hope will bring you closer to your ambitions; This cycle repeats as frequently as necessary to catch d...