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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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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

Ready to transform your approach to project management and software development? Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges. What are the Top 5 Agile Methodologies?

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10 Data Protection Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Yes, you'll have a data protection officer or some other similar role on the team, but you also need to have some basic understanding for what it means for changing your process or building your new software or feature. The simplest example is if your business builds new software. Can you find data in your new software?

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The Roles and Responsibilities Document on Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here's a definition: A Roles and Responsibilities document is a formal way of defining what each role is responsible for on a project team. In an IT project, for example, you could have system developers also taking on a testing role or peer reviewing their colleague's work in a quality role. Roles are not the same as people.

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Product-Market Fit: What Is It & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

You can thank Marc Andreessen , the American entrepreneur, investor and software engineer, for the hyphenated phrase. The idea of a product-market fit is straightforward and even simple to define, but hard to achieve. When you start to define these customers and their attributes, it’s called persona archetypes.

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Project Delivery through the Definition of Done

Project Pulse Journal

It can be your reality with a well-defined DoD. From individual coding tasks to large-scale releases, the DoD sets the bar for quality and completeness, ensuring everyone - from developers to stakeholders - is on the same page. This helps the project team define what needs to be delivered and prevent potential scope creep.

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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

Planio

But what if you’ve never written a line of code in your life? While most technical project managers aren’t expected to code (and most haven’t done serious development work in years), they have the background to make technical decisions, understand tradeoffs, and spot risks that a typical project manager might miss.