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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. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

Digite

Several good books have been written on Kanban and its application to various business processes, especially to Scrum, since David Anderson published his original Kanban “blue book”. 262 pages, ET to read: 4 hours, Published April 7th, 2010 by Blue Hole Press). Scrumban and Other Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Dev.

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Why Agile Transformations sometimes fail

Scrum.org

Based on my experience working in agile environments since 2010, I did some research and had general observations on the topic. This is an ongoing process of continuous improvements, running inspection and adaptation. This is an ongoing process of continuous improvements, running inspection and adaptation. What could happen?

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

The mechanical perspective draws attention to the structure and processes of organizations. In the following century, it would give rise to modern-day practices like lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Gantt-charts. From the mechanical perspective, change is defined in terms of modifications to structures and processes.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Projects, Products, and Processes , Richard Stutzke, Addison-Wesley, 2005. Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum , Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, Addison Wesley, 2010. Prentice Hall, 2000.

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Mastering the (new) Agile Coaching Mindset for the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR)

International Institute for Learning

The Agile Coaches’ credentials for the 4IR would benefit from a successful track record of leading Business Agility transformation initiatives and experience with creating environments for the rapid evolution of people, processes, and technological efficiencies to ensure constant delivery alignment with changing market strategies.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. There is naturally occurring variability from uncontrolled processes. Aleatory uncertainty is expressed as a process variability. First, let's establish a principle.

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