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Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing

Digite

The Japanese term “kanban” translates to “signal card,” and was originally developed by Toyota in the 1940s. Inspired by grocery stores, which stock only as much product as people need, Toyota’s manufacturing teams began using cards, or kanbans, to signal to other parts of the production line that they needed more parts.

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Comprehensive Guide to Becoming A SAFe Agilist

Agilemania

Planning and Execution of Program Increment: A SAFe Agilist has envisioned a roadmap for the success of the Agile Development and successful SAFe implementation process. They start strategic planning as a lead which sets the plan for the Development team to realize the goal of becoming an Agile organization.

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Release planning and predictable delivery

Scrum.org

Once you accept this, and quality becomes non-negotiable, your Dev e lopers can focus on creating usable increments of working software. Without a regular cadence of delivery of working software any belief that you will get a usable increment is misguided at best. Professional Developers create working software.

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What Is the Scaled Agile Framework? SAFe Explained

Wrike

It is especially useful in software development and enterprise product management as these teams tackle projects and programs on extended timelines with continuous improvements, upgrades, and iterations released and delivered to customers over time. Think of your favorite mobile apps (e.g., What are the principles of SAFe?

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Leveraging Agile to Get Predictable

Leading Agile

They deliver it, they review it with the product owner, product owner says yes, and then they get to claim the points, right? In my organization, LeadingAgile, I have a software development team, I have zero need for predictability, like zero need for predictability. They pull a chunk off the backlog. We see this a lot, right?

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Project Success Assessment - A checklist for assessing the processes for project success.

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Project Management: Principles, Practices & Context

Velociteach

Lean manufacturing influenced the quality movement, Agile , and DevOps. Lean Lean principles originated in Japan’s manufacturing sector after World War II but have since been adopted by various industries worldwide. Customers and development teams should work together daily. It also focuses on relationships.

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