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20 Years of The Agile Manifesto

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The Agile Manifesto date was 11-13 February 2001. Martin Steve Mellor Ken Schwaber Jeff Sutherland Dave Thomas © 2001, the above authors this declaration may be freely copied in any form, but only in its entirety through this notice. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage. Celebrating 20 years.

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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The kanban board is broken down into columns that represent the different stages of a process, and the kanban cards are individual tasks that move from one column to the next as they move through the process. This created less waste and increased the efficiency of processes. When one bin is empty, the next bin refills it.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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The name is apt, as the waterfall methodology is a process in which the phases of the project flow downward. When implementing the agile methodology , project planning and work management are adaptive, evolutionary in development, seeking early delivery and are always open to change if that leads to process improvement.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. The scrum master is the team expert on the process, and they are instrumental in guiding the team to optimize the use of scrum in the project. What Is Scrum?

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From Project Management Professional (PMP)® to Professional Scrum Master

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In my quest for being at my best to serve, I have gone through accreditation processes to become a professional trainer in many of these. While I was already using the Scrum framework since 2001, be it in a Zombie way, it was time to take agility dead seriously. I have successfully passed and facilitated quite a few of these tracks.

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The Agile Manifesto, Explained

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The phrase agile software development was first used in 2001, but agile was in fact being applied to projects since the mid-1990s. This is a way of thinking, more than a methodology, some would say, as it’s not so structured as to become rigid and calcified in process. People respond to business needs and drive the development process.

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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We do it as children, we do it as teenagers (often terrifying our parents in the process) and we do it as adults. Strengths-based project management is an approach to project management that focuses on the people rather than the process. In fact, the approach that has the biggest impact is to model the behavior you are looking for.