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Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Newton’s third law is also true in the case of agile vs waterfall, where one sprang to life as a reaction to the other. But which one was first, what are their differences, and do they have anything in common? What is Waterfall? Let’s take a look. Phases of the Waterfall Method. Benefits of Waterfall.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

Scrum.org

What product discovery part, you may think now. And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. From sunk costs, HIPPO-ism, my-budget-my-features to self-fulfilling prophecies?— Scrum’s Achilles Heel: Product Discovery.

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are there projects missing deadlines, going over budget, or failing to meet expectations within your organization? What is a Project Management Office? You're not alone. Many enterprises struggle with these challenges, but there's a strategic way to turn things around.

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Is Software Development Art or Engineering

Herding Cats

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. Software-intensive systems include: .

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Why Johnny Can't Estimate? (Update)

Herding Cats

I work in a domain where engineered systems are developed for complex software-intensive system of systems. These systems are engineered with a variety of development methods. Ranging from traditional to agile and combinations in between. Some are products in their own right, some are embedded in larger missions.

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Best Kanban Software of 2021 for Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Kanban, which means billboard or signboard in Japanese, is a work management system developed by Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota. While kanban boards can be literal boards with cards on them, the tool has migrated to the digital realm where kanban software’s usefulness has grown exponentially in a range of industries.

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7 Common Misconceptions about MS Project that People Get Wrong – Transcription

MPUG

Tim Runcie: But today, as we get in and really talk about what we’re going to dig into, we actually have part of the Microsoft engineering team here. So, that’s a lot of what you all don’t typically get to see, but he makes sure things work. That is wonderful. Tim, I’m getting let you take over.