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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

Learn more History of Kanban Kanban was first introduced in Japan as a lean manufacturing approach pioneered by Taiichi Ohno in the late 1940s. 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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Build Awesome: RoR Devs Wanted

LiquidPlanner

We didn’t really realize it at the time, but we built and launched the company using many of the concepts that Eric Ries later elegantly defined in his 2008 book The Lean Startup. So, if you’re itching for a new role in which you will directly impact the direction of our growing software company, this could be the gig for you.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2022

ProjectManager.com

Click here to download ProjectManager’s survey report on 2022 project management trends. What to Expect: Sessions focus on agility, software engineering and lean business. One of the biggest trends is the hybrid boom and how to manage teams who are distributed, in different departments and with different skill sets.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

You can print or download your transcript and certificates of completion, including one for today. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day. Or, the worst case is because some software developer said so. By education and training.

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21 Types Of Project Management Software (With Examples)

Teamweek

Lean Six Sigma project management software. This type of PM software is for companies that follow the Six Sigma methodology to deliver projects. Traction is a leading cloud-based solution that facilitates all Lean Six Sigma capabilities and enables you to generate graphs and crunch data sets without using an external tool.

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Webinar Recap: Want To Be A PMI-ACP? The Primary Steps to Take

MPUG

Within your history, you can print or download your transcript and certificates of completion, including the one for today. So you have master in Scrum, or master in Kanban or like a professional in Lean. Even the engineers, hardware engineer, software engineer, mechanical engineer.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.