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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.

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20 Years of The Agile Manifesto

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That’s when the Snowbird summit happened and the 17 authors got together to work out how things for software developers could be better. What dropped out of the meeting of the Snowbird 17 was an understanding of what was common between all the different ways of getting software development done. Celebrating 20 years.

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

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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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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

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 Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991.

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Quick and Easy: This Is New in the Scrum Guide 2020

Inloox

The creators of Scrum , Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, developed the concept in the early 1990s. In 2010, they published the first Scrum Guide, a guide to the method with the intention of providing people, teams and organizations with a framework to master complex tasks and create products with the highest possible value.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

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

Digite

262 pages, ET to read: 4 hours, Published April 7th, 2010 by Blue Hole Press). This is the original book where David Anderson first laid down the definition of and guidance to the Kanban Method for software and knowledge work. David Anderson, who is widely regarded as the Kanban Method pioneer published this book in 2010.

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