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		Benefits: Maximize your ROI with ScrumWorks&amp;trade; Pro
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		ScrumWorks&amp;trade; Pro focuses development and management roles on the Scrum principles and practices crucial to maximizing your software development ROI.
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		Role Focus - Product Management
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		The Product Owner is ultimately responsible for the ROI of a Scrum development project.  The Product Owner makes critical prioritization decisions about what goes into the product.  From features to bug fixes, all decisions about what Scrum team work on must be authorized by the product owner.  The Product Owner is also responsible for scheduling and managing release dates.
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ScrumWorks&amp;trade; Pro gives the Product Owner all the tools and visibility to help make those critical prioritization and schedule decisions.  In addition, ScrumWorks&amp;trade; Pro helps keep stakeholders and management apprised of progress.  This demonstration includes:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Backlog and Release Management&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Explicit Prioritization&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Schedule Projection Reports&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cost Benefit Analysis&lt;/li&gt;
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		Role Focus - Team Members
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		Scrum teams are responsible for meeting iteration commitments.  Iterations, called Sprints in Scrum, are usually between two and four weeks long and provide narrowly focused goals that must result in a functional product increment.  In Scrum, products are therefore built increment by increment, and the rate at which teams complete product increments is called the team&#039;s &#039;velocity&#039;.
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ScrumWorks&amp;trade; Pro provides teams with all the tools they need to collaborate and self-organize around sprint goals to maximize velocity.  Because focus is critical, ScrumWorks&amp;trade; Pro keeps sprint progress front and center.  This demonstration includes:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Web-based Task Board&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sprint Detail Mode&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sprint Burndown Chart&lt;/li&gt;
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		Role Focus - ScrumMaster
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        The ScrumMaster is a team&#039;s facilitator and generally helps to ensure that the team&#039;s productivity is maximized.  Therefore, a productive and efficient ScrumMaster directly enhances development productivity.
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ScrumWorks&amp;trade; Pro aims to minimize project management overhead such that a ScrumMaster&#039;s time can more appropriately be spent maximizing the productivity of the development organization.
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 <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:16:02 -0600</pubDate>
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