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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

Key Events and Books Agile Manifesto (2001): Defines the four key values and 12 principles of agile as defined by the software developers who created the document David Anderson successfully developed a kanban system for Microsoft XIT Sustaining Engineering Group (2004), which brought kanban from the factory floor to use in knowledge work globally (..)

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Clarifying Misconceptions of the Big Launch

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Specifically, Movable Type’s May 2004 decision to change the terms of its license. After Movable Type’s owners decided to charge users in 2004, WordPress attracted a deluge of incensed refugees fleeing the company. Easy to create multiple blogs. In every case, I pitched some of the big advantages to MT: Low cost license.

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I was interviewed by Diego Nei for the Brazilian blog, Papo GP (Talking PM – I think I’ve got that right). — Today, on our Project Management Methodologies Series, we’re going to interview Elizabeth Harrin, from the award-winning blog A Girl’s Guide to Project Management. Take it further.

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Get Motivated: 10 Motivational Speeches That Will Change Your Life

ProjectManager.com

Barack Obama, DNC Speech, 2004. Before Barack Obama became the first African-American President of the United States, when he was little known outside the grassroots activist community in Chicago, he was given a national platform as the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in 2004.

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., 2014), and Jugdev et al., Managing project time effectively may eliminate many of the causes we have identified. REFERENCES Freudenberger, H. Staff burn-out.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). Agile Scrum Belgique Blog; [link]. The most popular and pioneer methods, as highlighted by Conboy et al.

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Clarifying Misconceptions of the Big Launch

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Specifically, Movable Type’s May 2004 decision to change the terms of its license. After Movable Type’s owners decided to charge users in 2004, WordPress attracted a deluge of incensed refugees fleeing the company. Easy to create multiple blogs. In every case, I pitched some of the big advantages to MT: Low cost license.

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