Introduction:

In the past few years an increasing numbers of styles of software development models, referred to as agile methodologies have been gaining a lot of interest in the software development world. Promising an antidote to bureaucracy that old models were forcing, agile methodologies became very successful in gaining a huge number of followers and supporters all over the software landscape. Eventually the question changed from "Should we become agile?" to "Which agile methodology should we follow?" This article will try to answer this question by showing (in general) three of the main agile methodologies that have a long record of success.  This article  will also try to decide on the best way of implantation for these methodologies particularly in startup environments.

So let's start by going over the main concepts of the 3 chosen methodologies; Lean, Scrum, and Extreme Programming (XP).

ScrumMaster Role and Activities

Introduction

I have been contemplating the role and capacity of the ScrumMaster for some time now and wanted to pen something down, as I believe this understanding is needed now in the Agile community.

It seems that there are a lot of confusion and misconceptions on the activities and capacity of this specific and important Scrum role in the industry. This article will try to alleviate some of these concerns.