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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. What Is Scrum?

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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We have so much material about what processes to use, and yet it is estimated that 70% – and possibly as much as 81% – of project success depends on the human side of projects. Strengths-based project management is an approach to project management that focuses on the people rather than the process. Gertman et.

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Laughter & Leadership – How Humor Can Make You a Better Leader

ProjectManager.com

According a 2001 report , 40 percent of job turnover is due to stress. The cost in the US is estimated to be more than $300 billion in lost productivity alone. is estimated to be more than $300 billion in lost productivity alone. Who doesn’t need a blast of that in the midst of a stressful project? What We Know About Stress.

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Bye Bye Velocity. Hello Throughput.

Scrum.org

I pull up my complementary slide deck around relative estimation, poker planning, charts to track velocity and we spend an additional hour on this topic. I answer questions around the meaning of story points, how they should be understood, tracked and used in multi-team Agile project.

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The Complete History of Agile Software Development

Agilemania

” At that time, organizations used to estimate three years between a validated business need and an actual application in production. After the Oregon meeting, Jon Kern and the 17 groups of developers (Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham, Arie van Bennekum, Alistair Cockburn, and twelve others) met at a snowbird ski resort, Utah in 2001.

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The 4 Essential Agile Tools for Agile Teams

ProjectManager.com

While the roots of incremental development methods of working stem back to the 1950s and into the 1970s, it wasn’t until 2001 that a group of software developers published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Your estimates for scheduling will be more accurate when you have precedent to guide you.

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Bye bye velocity. Hello throughout.

Scrum.org

I pull up my complementary slide deck around relative estimation, poker planning, charts to track velocity and we spend an additional hour on this topic. I answer questions around the meaning of story points, how they should be understood, tracked and used in multi-team Agile project.

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