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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. Get started for free today. What Is Scrum?

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

The kanban board is broken down into columns that represent the different stages of a process, and the kanban cards are individual tasks that move from one column to the next as they move through the process. This created less waste and increased the efficiency of processes. When one bin is empty, the next bin refills it.

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Beware false accuracy with quantitative risk assessment

Kiron Bondale

Michael’s concern is: “ We turn haphazard guesswork into a science, and think we’re making sound business decisions because we “have done the numbers”, when in reality, we are the victim of an error that is explicitly built into our process. The infamous Summer of the Shark in 2001 is a good example.

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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We do it as children, we do it as teenagers (often terrifying our parents in the process) and we do it as adults. Strengths-based project management is an approach to project management that focuses on the people rather than the process. In fact, the approach that has the biggest impact is to model the behavior you are looking for.

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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. COSMIC Software Estimation Approach,” Alain Abran, ICEAA Workshop, Portland Oregon, June 6?9, Estimating Probable System Cost,” Stephen A. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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Am I Really Doing Agile?

LiquidPlanner

It turns out that “agile” isn’t really a process. 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. Absolutely.