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Agile Project Management: Principles, Meetings, Values & Tools

ProjectManager.com

Frustrated developers started to introduce new methods, such as Scrum, rapid application development, extreme programming, DSMD, features-driven development and pragmatic programming. These were developed when the Agile Manifesto was written. Spring planning is that part of scrum that kicks off a sprint.

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Agile project management: A beginner's guide

Moira Alexander

Although designed originally for the software industry, many industries have now adopted the use of agile in their development of products and services because of the highly collaborative and more efficient nature of the methodology. Agile is also used in industries like marketing and advertising, construction, education and finance.

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Create a Learning Environment:  Profit from Your Mistakes

Project Management Essentials

Throughout my career, I created positive and constructive environments—sometimes despite the organization’s overall culture. Scrum builds continuous improvement and experimentation into its methodology. At the end of each development sprint, the team holds a Retrospective. Encourage Experimentation. Take an Agile approach.

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Scrum vs Kanban vs Agile vs Waterfall – A side-by-side comparison

nTask

In this article, we attempt to clarify the basic concepts behind Scrum, Kanban, Agile and Waterfall. Comparing Scrum vs Agile is equivalent to comparing apple to fruit. Scrum is one of the Agile frameworks that have taken multiple industries by storm in the last few years. Let’s begin. One is a sub-category of the other.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. That’s just it. Great question, though.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

I’d like to begin by sharing a brilliant quote that puts the latest project management fashion, Agile, into humbling perspective: “ A Waterfall project is just an Agile (Scrum) project with one huge sprint! The latter, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) came from the Rapid Application Development movement.

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Top 20 Project Management Methodologies & their Scions: Which One You Should Choose & Why?

Taskque

Rapid Application Development. Scrum is a framework and not a project management methodology. Short sprints, stand up meetings and emphasis on communication differentiates scrum from agile. You can also use scrum best practices to make your meetings fruitful. Rapid Application Development.