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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum.

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has powerful kanban features that can estimate project costs and track resource allocation. While kanban systems were once analog, they have since moved into the digital space and are often found in project management software.

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Am I Really Doing Agile?

LiquidPlanner

Focus on Agile principles, not practices Let’s go back to 2001 and take a look at the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. The principles are more detailed (and more industry specific), but still steer largely clear of defining processes or practices. This is what kicked off the whole Agile movement.

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The Growth of Value-Driven Project Management

International Institute for Learning

Traditional projects were most often based upon well-defined customer requirements. Environmental factors, once defined at the onset of a project, were expected to remain the same over the life of the project. 1] Kerzner, Harold (2001). Processes were based upon a stationary rather than moving target.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair - Anais Nïn , in Improving Project Performance: Eight Habits of Successful Project teams , Jerry Wellman, Palgrave, 2001. en, and Henry Montgomery (editors). Of course, this work and the work of many dozens of other researchers make it clear as always that.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

In 2001, a group of software thought-leaders got together and hammered out the Agile Manifesto. In my estimation, Agile will be applied in at most 50% of our world’s projects and, in a few years, less than that as I see in my crystal ball. They called themselves the ‘ Agile Alliance ’ and the Agile movement was born.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

In 2001 a group of software engineers and scientists in IT industry got together and wrote Agile Manifesto. Project size as defined by the amount of work needed to finish the work should be one factor in deciding what project management method you should use. Project Estimation. This works much better for most large projects.

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