Learn the Scrum Methodology The Scrum methodology of agile
software development marks a dramatic departure from waterfall
management. In fact, Scrum and other agile processes were
inspired by its shortcomings. The Scrum methodology emphasizes
communication and collaboration, functioning software, and the
flexibility to adapt to emerging business realities — all
attributes that suffer in the rigidly ordered waterfall
paradigm. Posted by admin under Scrum Basics In waterfall,
managers determine a team member’s workload capacity in terms of
time. That is, managers estimate how long they anticipate
certain tasks will take and then assign work based on that team
member’s total available time. This is problematic because it
does not distinguish between a story that is very hard to
complete and one that is undemanding; it only considers how long
the work will take. To put it another way, coding a feature and
organizing the heaps of documentation on your desk are
activities that likely take the same amount of time, b