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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

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. What Is Kanban Software?

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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

However, those changes should be fully analyzed, documented and incorporated into the project. Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Step #1: Document the change request in the change log. Complete the documentation for the change log.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. What Is the Scrum Methodology? Scrum Values.

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What's Missing from the Agile Software Development Paradigm

Herding Cats

Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. These are all focused on developing software, delivering that software to those paying the developers. Why This Missing Concept is Important to Agile Software Development? .

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

Herding Cats

The primary document produced from the Capabilities Based Planning process is the Concept of Operations. This document is all but unknown in the Enterprise IT domain and completely unknown in the agile software development world.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Monitoring and Control Documentation All the DoD contractors began developing their own project management policies, procedures, forms, templates, checklists, and guidelines. The guideline documents were eventually helpful in the preparation of new editions of the PMBOK® Guide.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Deliverables Based Planning: Providing Actional Information to the Program Manager , 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium, 2009. Increasing the Probability of Success , Dallas MPUG, May 6th, 2009. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008. Agile Project Management.

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