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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

The book laid out the principles of lean manufacturing, which focuses on reducing waste, creating customer value and seeking continuous process improvement, and kanban. For software development , kanban fosters dynamic task management, speeds up delivery cycles and improves customer satisfaction, all of which align with agile.

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Building blocks of the next generation of Organisations

Scrum.org

Having devoted communities aid in the organisation's ability to conduct its business, sustain itself, and produce excellent results. He has helped many organisations adopt agile software delivery practices, including large banking, payments, telecom, and product organisations. He loves reading books, travelling and public speaking.

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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson

Scrum.org

From the long list of observation, heuristics, and mental models in psychology, organizational design, or software engineering, I pick six “agile laws” that seem to be particularly relevant in this area of distributed agile teams: Conway’s Law. Agile Laws: Conway, Brooks, Hackman, Goodhart, Larman, and Parkinson. Brooks’s Law.

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23 Project Management Books for All Experience Levels

Wrike

So while you want to learn more about project management — either to pick up new skills or sharpen the ones you’ve already developed — you don’t have unlimited hours to read every book on the subject. Which project management books are best for your experience level? 23 Project Management Books for All Levels.

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The Science of Growth [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the premise behind the book. The book presents interesting case studies of pairs of companies where one has been successful and one hasn’t. One of the factors Ammirati discusses for creating sustainable growth is having the right people around you.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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Agile Laws to Help with Transformation

Scrum.org

Your single best investment to improve your professional standing; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Brooks’ Law Frederick Brooks stated in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” edition ! ?

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