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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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Kanban for manufacturing is a visual system used to control the flow of work within a process. Don’t worry about quality control. The book laid out the principles of lean manufacturing, which focuses on reducing waste, creating customer value and seeking continuous process improvement, and kanban.

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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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7 Uncomfortable Truths for Project Managers

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Famously, software engineer and author Tim Lister said that: “Risk management is how adults manage projects.” The only way to regain control of your outcomes from your stakeholders is to invest your time in them. You Can’t Control Everything. We are not control freaks. The Monitor and Control Cycle.

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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. " Larry Constantine is a software engineer and designer who pioneered the Structured Design approach to software development.

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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. The Software Industry. Principles of Quality Assurance.

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

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We never solve the exact same problem again in software engineering and other creative work. In this scenario, we can use the framework and empirical process control as a guide to creating the solution or solving the complex problem, but we can’t create a production line for the complete work. It is continuous complex work.

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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

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Teams that have the right degree of peer-pressure to keep each other accountable are less likely to suffer from collective under performance, and to fall back to top-down control later. In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking.