Agile Software Development

Scrum is the adaptive and flexible software development methodology. The possibility to adjust it according to the team preferences and organizational culture make Scrum implementations look differently across the organization. Some teams like packing the estimation session into a separate day, some like doing a little bit of estimation during every sprint planning; some teams have 5 minutes long sprint reviews, some have to make their reviews day long in order to let all the stakeholders express their opinions.

We are not rich enough to buy cheap stuff.
- Russian proverb

Did you know, that the products with the lowest defect rates have the shortest schedules?

The statistical research on about 4000 software project mathematically proves that savings on the QA, throwing away the code reviews and unit testing is the worst decision a manager could make in order to speed up the progress. The cuts in the testing will undoubtedly bite the project back.