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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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Learn more History of Kanban Kanban was first introduced in Japan as a lean manufacturing approach pioneered by Taiichi Ohno in the late 1940s. The book laid out the principles of lean manufacturing, which focuses on reducing waste, creating customer value and seeking continuous process improvement, and kanban.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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That’s because what we think of as agile really appeared in 2001 with the publication of the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development,” authored by 17 software developers. It became a part of agile when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” in 2001. Lean Methodology.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. Scrum is a project management framework with well-defined roles, guidelines and procedures that ensure this methodology is implemented consistently. What Is Kanban?

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Agile Project Management

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Agile is not a methodology but a set of principles (as defined in the Agile Manifesto in 2001) that suggests how we should approach project management. Just because you're using Kanban boards [[link] Lean, or Scrum [[link] doesn't automatically mean you're agile.

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Project Management: Principles, Practices & Context

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The project management profession has had a similar quest—defining a methodology, set of practices, or principles that could successfully guide any project. Understanding the definitions is helpful: Principles define the fundamental beliefs that guide decision-making and behaviors. Which methodology(ies) or framework(s) should be used?

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What is Taylorism, and why Waterfall is just the tip of the iceberg!

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They wanted to remove thinking from the work since thinking creates ideas, and ideas create deviations from the pre-defined optimal way of working. Manufacturing created a large volume of pre-defined work in a low variance environment where the work outcomes were known before the work was performed. Agile Manifesto, 2001.

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Agile and Scrum: Unravelling the Misconceptions

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In 2001 the Agile Manifesto for Software Development was introduced to encapsulate a new way of thinking with 4 values and 12 principles on how to deliver software products better. The Scrum Guide, which serves as the definitive source of Scrum knowledge, clearly defines its elements and principles. What is Agile?

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