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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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Kanban history has informed everything from manufacturing to software development. For those unsure what kanban is, we’ll first explain the kanban system and then go into kanban history from its development to its uses in manufacturing, project management and software development. What Is Kanban?

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Contracting for Agile Software Development Efforts

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Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. The Product Vision should be included in an appendix to the contract for reference with respect to questions on prioritization of the Product Backlog and updates to a Product Roadmap.

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Agile Project Management: Principles, Meetings, Values & Tools

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Frustrated developers started to introduce new methods, such as Scrum, rapid application development, extreme programming, DSMD, features-driven development and pragmatic programming. The Manifesto for Agile Software Development or just the Agile Manifesto laid out four key values and from there 12 agile principles.

Agile 305
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Top 5 objections to Scrum (and why those objections are wrong)

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One thing that every team has had in common is that, at one time, they were new to Scrum. When I engage with teams to discuss implementing the Scrum framework, they often raise potential impediments to adopting Scrum. Below are the five most common objections to Scrum and why they don’t hold any weight. .

SCRUM 208
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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. They all feature on PMI’s exam reference materials list. Instead, you would probably get more use out of investing your reading time in User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Mike Cohn).

PMI 195
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Honey, I Shrunk the Backlog — Allan Kelly at the Hands-on Agile 44

Scrum.org

Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! ? ? ?? What about a forward estimation if stories are generated just in time? For example, does UX research for the next thing while developers deliver the current? Do you refer to OKRs in general or to OKRs as you define them in your OKR book?

Agile 186
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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The term refers to how the project’s requirements or feature list grows over time without proper control. Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Example of scope creep in software development. Example of scope creep in Scrum.