Dave West
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Dave West is the Product Owner and CEO at scrum.org. He is a frequent keynote speaker and is a widely published author of articles, along with his acclaimed book: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. He led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and then worked with Ivar Jacobson running the North American business for IJI. Then managed the software delivery practice at Forrester research where he was VP and research director. Prior to joining Scrum.org he was Chief Product Officer at Tasktop where he was responsible for product management, engineering and architecture.
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In this blog post, Dave West answers the question - How do you, for the lack of a better word, “manage” Stakeholders?
Sep 29, 2021
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In this article Dave West discusses the importance of Kindness and the benefits agile teams get when people are thinking about kindness.
Sep 2, 2021
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On June the 8th Scrum.org hosted a webinar on the subject of using Scrum in Biotech research. The blog addresses unanswered questions from the session
Aug 17, 2021
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Today, Scrum.org launches the new Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence Based Management ™ (EBM) training course.
Jul 21, 2021
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In this blog post, Dave West describes professionalism in Scrum and why it is so important in this crazy, ever-changing world.
May 6, 2021
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November 2020 was the launch of the Scrum Guide update. It seems like only yesterday but was over 3 months ago...
Feb 23, 2021
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A brief overview of the word changes between the 2020 and 2017 version of the Scrum Guide.
Jan 10, 2021
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Scrum is described as a framework, not a methodology. The Scrum Guide provides just enough prescription to allow Scrum to work and encourages its ‘users’ to be smart, adding practices and other things specific to them on top of the framework as needed to form their process.
Nov 18, 2020
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With the 2020 release of the Scrum Guide, the term role was replaced with accountabilities. The purpose of this change was to place special emphasis that this is not a job description, but the bare minimum set of accountabilities necessary to execute Scrum. The blog describes how these accountabilities are split into 3 groups.
Nov 18, 2020
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One interesting change to the Scrum Guide for the 2020 release was the change of the term Self-Organizing to Self-Managing. This blog discusses the change.
Nov 18, 2020
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