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I am proud to announce that Jim Wang, Shinetech’s Vice President, Global Delivery, recently completed the Chinese translation of Software in 30 Days, written by the creators of Scrum, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. The book will be on sale in China this month.

Sprint planning meetings are essential for Scrum teams to determine the amount of work necessary to achieve the sprint goal and meet clients’ requirements. Here are some expert tips for effective sprint planning meetings:

Scrum sprint planning meetings are held at the start of the sprint cycle. The product owner and Scrum Master meet with the rest of the team to review the product backlog, answer any questions and set a sprint goal.

Scrum methodology, a project management technique that’s ideal for software projects, divides a project into smaller working sections managed with a tightly knit team approach. For those who wonder whether or not they are practicing Scrum, certified scrum trainers, like Alan Cyment, have said: “If you are following all of the framework rules, you are.

There’s an increase in the number of business stakeholders championing agile development, and it’s easy to see why. Agile development delivers market advantage in a sluggish economy where the competition for sales dollars is fierce.

If you think you can’t deploy Agile development across your distributed development teams, think again. As it turns out, the very nature of Agile’s adaptable environment makes it an ideal development methodology for ensuring momentum and process efficiency across distributed teams.

The benefits of agile are widely known, but may be difficult to implement—at least at first. When developers are switching over to Agile methodology, the first question they may be asking is: How can I work Agile into my daily tasks?

This question may come in tandem with the following issues for developers who ask it:

So what’s a government IT professional to do when budget resources are tight and expectations for application development is high? Turn to agile software development, of course.

Gone are the days when you could sit in an office with your project manager to leisurely discuss your progress and prepare presentations with neat “progress bars” so no one could see how little progress was actually made.

Why development is trending towards Agile.