Business Application - Short Term Projects

Projects That Propel Organizations Forward

SCRUM METHODOLOGY One helpful method for successful project management, using the Yes and No principle, is the Scrum Methodology. Scrum was designed to help software engineers be better project managers as they developed software. Now Scrum Methodology can be used to ensure that companies do not fall into the trap of project fatigue. 3

“Work expands to fillthe timeavailablefor itscompletion.

PARKINSON’S LAW”

“The name Scrum, however, was inherited from a paper published in 1986 by management experts Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, called ‘The New New Product Development Game.’ They were using the word scrum as it related to rugby as a means of stressing the importance of team collaboration for project success.” 4