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A PM’s Guide to Agile Software Development

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Everybody’s talking about agile software development these days: project managers, software developers, IT directors, small startups and big corporations. What is Agile Software Development? Agile software development is an approach that promotes delivering value quickly to the customer.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. If you’d like to use kanban boards for managing tasks, projects or workflows you’ll need project management software like ProjectManager. What Is Kanban?

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Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding

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This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading part one first, “ What is Lean Portfolio Management ,” which you can find here . In this post, we’ll discuss a fundamental component of Lean portfolio management: funding. This is where Lean budgeting comes in.

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The 5 Lean Principles: Definitions & How to Use Them

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Lean management originated in Japan, where it grew out of the Toyota Production System. This led to lean manufacturing, but today lean is used in more industries, such as project management, software development, construction and more. Jones declared that there were five key lean principles. Overproduction.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. When to Use It: The practice originated in software development and works well in that culture. Top 10 Project Management Methodologies.

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Product Manager vs Project Manager – What’s the Difference?

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For example, manufacturing product managers are responsible for tangible products, while software development product managers will have different teams and agile workflows to assist in the software product launch. Develop a project plan. What Is a Project Manager? Assemble and manage a project management team.

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The Agile Manifesto from a Lean Perspective

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The result of this buzz session was, of course, the Agile ‘Software Development’ Manifesto. To what extent, for example, is the Manifesto a reflex of “lean thinking”? Along with methods of round-trip development, it was in a sort of ascendancy at the time. Can we perhaps see into the minds of those who were there?

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