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Why Agile Engineering Practices in Software Development Are Essential to Achieve Agility

Scrum.org

In the Oxford Diary, the word agility is defined as the ability to move quickly and easily. This works as a metaphor for defining the scope of a project, and have teams work in short iterations in which they deliver each planned feature as quickly as possible, and then move on to the next. Which I think is unfortunate.

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

Kanban history has informed everything from manufacturing to software development. For those unsure what kanban is, we’ll first explain the kanban system and then go into kanban history from its development to its uses in manufacturing, project management and software development.

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Job of Agile Release Train Engineer and Status Reporting

The Strategic Project Manager

This post examines the overall responsibilities of the Release Training Engineer (RTE) within the SAFe methodology. Release Train Engineer Responsibilities Before diving deeper into reporting responsibilities and challenges for the RTE, let’s put it all into perspective by looking at the whole range of responsibilities of the RTE.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum. Likewise, if the tasks are not well-defined, then you’re going to have inaccuracies.

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Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?

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Commonly used in engineering and software development, it’s a more structured approach because progress falls in one direction, like a waterfall, from ideation to launch. Design : There are two parts to this phase, including logical design and physical design, all resulting in the software or product architecture.

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A 2021 Guide to Engineering Project Management that You Can Use Right Now

nTask

So, when it comes to engineering projects, project management is an incredible way to manage all of the different tasks and processes included in the development process. What is the Different between Engineering management and Engineering project management? The tasks of the development process are routine and recurring.

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Is Software Development Art or Engineering

Herding Cats

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. This is called engineering the solution.