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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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The kanban board is broken down into columns that represent the different stages of a process, and the kanban cards are individual tasks that move from one column to the next as they move through the process. This created less waste and increased the efficiency of processes. When one bin is empty, the next bin refills it.

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Stop normalizing unprofessional behaviour in the name of agility

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Think about the lead software engineer at Volkswagen that got a 3-year prison sentence for following orders and writing code that disabled the catalytic convertor when under emissions tests.

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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

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The Difference Between Quality Assurance and Quality Control. The difference between quality assurance and quality control is subtle but significant, although both terms are often used interchangeably to describe the quality management of the project’s product or service. Principles of Quality Assurance. History of Quality Assurance.

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7 Uncomfortable Truths for Project Managers

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It will be your stakeholders who decide whether to: Adopt the processes you build. This has led me to conclude that of all the project management processes and disciplines, stakeholder engagement is paramount. Famously, software engineer and author Tim Lister said that: “Risk management is how adults manage projects.”

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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

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A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. The only way to relieve that stress is to remain calm about the situation and take action to keep the situation under control. The very process of identifying a risk eliminates its most damaging characteristic: surprise.

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Why does Agile focus on values and principles rather than a prescribed set of steps?

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They won’t know the answer, the process, or have a predefined set of steps until they have created the solution or built the product. We never solve the exact same problem again in software engineering and other creative work. Only then will they know, with certainty, how to do the work. That is complex work.

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Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?

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The waterfall methodology is a process where project activities are broken down into linear phases. Design : There are two parts to this phase, including logical design and physical design, all resulting in the software or product architecture. Waterfall as a process is linear, while agile is iterative. Let’s take a look.

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