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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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Kanban history has informed everything from manufacturing to software development. For those unsure what kanban is, we’ll first explain the kanban system and then go into kanban history from its development to its uses in manufacturing, project management and software development. Kanban as a name came later.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

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The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II , Barry Boehm, et. Don't hear one? Prentice Hall, 2000.

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Risk Management Resources

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Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. 920, November 2004. 3 September 2004, Heiot Watt University, Association of Researchers in Construction Management , Vol. 255, April 2010. Talat Birgonul, and A. 85 1 Feb 2019. “An

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. 920, November 2004. 255, April 2010. Kwak and J.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L. 12, 2008. “A

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

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In the complex world of Sales, Marketing, and Software Development, we also needed new ways of thinking that would power the same ideas from Toyota and Lean into the high variance world of complex cognitive work. However, even factory work has progressed in the shadow of the Toyota Production System and the lean movement.

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Software Estimating Resources

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Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. 61, September 2004. How I Estimate Software Development Projects,” Alvin J.