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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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For software development , kanban fosters dynamic task management, speeds up delivery cycles and improves customer satisfaction, all of which align with agile.

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The Agile Manifesto, Explained

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The phrase agile software development was first used in 2001, but agile was in fact being applied to projects since the mid-1990s. Software developers started to emphasize close collaboration between teams and stakeholders , frequent delivery of business value and self-organizing teams. Is Agile a Methodology?

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Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?

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Design : There are two parts to this phase, including logical design and physical design, all resulting in the software or product architecture. Implementation : In this phase, software engineers and developers return a beta version of the product after synthesizing the information from the research and design phases.

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Bye Bye Velocity. Hello Throughput.

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While our industry has talked about poker planning and story points since almost the beginning of agility in 2001, I think it is more than time that the conversation at Sprint Planning shifts to historical throughput instead of using velocity.

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Bye bye velocity. Hello throughout.

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While our industry has talked about poker planning and story points since almost the beginning of agility in 2001, I think it is more than time that the conversation at sprint planning shifts to historical throughput instead of using velocity.

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Money is important, but it is not what drives me

Gunther Verheyen

We have three kids (2001, 2003, 2013) of which the two oldest (sons) have a disability ( Duchenne and Down Syndrome ). Money was not what drove my wife and I when I gave up my position as software engineer and aspiring project manager in favor of running a bookshop (1996). Let there be no misunderstanding: money is important.

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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 SCRUM and productivity in software projects: a systematic literature review. In 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) (pp. A survey study of critical success factors in agile software projects.

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