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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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When to Use It: The Waterfall approach is great for manufacturing and construction projects , which are highly structured, and when it’s too expensive to pivot or change anything after the fact. The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka.

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Epicflow Updates: Managing Teams and Dividing Project Work into Phases

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The Epicflow team continues implementing the most powerful functionality to provide our clients with a variety of tools to juggle projects and resources most efficiently. In software development projects or any Agile environment, it’s typical to work with cross-functional teams consisting of employees with different roles (e.g.,

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4 Must-Have Features for a Kanban Tool

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There are simple drag-and-drop tools for organizing to-do lists, planning systems for agile teams and hybrid tools for robust project management. After reviewing dozens of these tools, we’ve found that there are four specific features of a kanban tool that are must-haves for any serious user. Your new columns would be: To-do.

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

The Kanban Board originates from Toyota's manufacturing system in the late 1940s, where it is a part of the Lean Manufacturing principles by Taiichi Ohno. Pull System – Grasp the concept of pulling work through the system based on the team's capacity rather than pushing tasks based on scheduled timelines.

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How to Take Advantage of Adaptive Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Scrum relies heavily on regular team meetings, such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, to adapt processes and outputs based on ongoing feedback and results. Scrum is led by Scrum Masters or Agile Project Managers, who help the team achieve results.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Embracing the Hybrid Project Revolution

NimbleWork

Early and continuous delivery of software builds as part of an Agile framework allow development teams to incorporate changing requirements and maintain customer satisfaction. The Waterfall framework is suitable for highly regulated industries where teams must follow well-defined requirements and ensure strict regulatory compliance.

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Transformation Corner: The Intersection of Product and Project Managers

MPUG

Defining Product Development Product development is creating and bringing a new product to market. It involves a series of steps: idea generation, market research, design, prototyping, testing, manufacturing, and marketing. Manufacturing: Once the product has been designed and tested, it’s time to start mass-producing it.