How to Implement SCRUM in 10 easy steps

Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for agile software development. Although Scrum was intended for management of software development projects, it can be used to run software maintenance teams, or as a general project/program management approach.

There are several implementations of systems for managing the Scrum process, which range from yellow stickers and whiteboards, to software packages. One of Scrum’s biggest advantages is that it is very easy to learn and requires little effort to start using.

Here's one nicely plotted at http://bit.ly/bGQNd1

Hands-on Entity Framework

Object-relational mapping or O/RM is a technique which creates a virtual database you can use from inside of your application, where, instead of tables of “things”, there are collections of “objects”. And an object can be a Person, a Car, a Record Album, an Invoice, whatever it is your application is working with. For example, a Record Album has a collection, or list, of tracks. And, for the most part, only has one Artist or Band. On the flip side, an Artist or Band has a list of Record Albums they have recorded. At its heart, what an O/RM does is to map database tables, and its relations, into a set of objects, or classes. This allows you to think in the context of your application, instead of how to make the data fit correctly into the tables.

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