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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.

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20 Years of The Agile Manifesto

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Agile Manifesto date was 11-13 February 2001. That’s when the Snowbird summit happened and the 17 authors got together to work out how things for software developers could be better. The Agile Manifesto says: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Celebrating 20 years.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

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The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is a simple project management framework that facilitates team collaboration on complex product and software development projects.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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2001 ) and proactive behavior ( LePine, Erez & Johnson, 2002 ). “So 2010) reviewed 28 scientific studies that investigated how Scrum is associated with overall business outcomes. Lee & Xia (2010) surveyed 505 Agile projects and found that high autonomy allowed teams to respond more quickly to challenges. 2010, April).

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

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Research has linked team cognition to higher performance and motivation (Mathieu et al, 2000), increased effectiveness (Kearny, Gebert & Voelpel, 2009), and generally explains a substantial amount of the variance (~19%) in the effectiveness of teams (De Church & Mesmer-Magnus, 2010). So … stable teams or fluid teams? J., & McLendon, C.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.