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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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Key Events and Books Agile Manifesto (2001): Defines the four key values and 12 principles of agile as defined by the software developers who created the document David Anderson successfully developed a kanban system for Microsoft XIT Sustaining Engineering Group (2004), which brought kanban from the factory floor to use in knowledge work globally (..)

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Raising Climate Awareness in Scrum Teams - a Scrum Master’s Journey

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Then last year, as I was looking for ways to become more sustainable, the idea started to grow that at the bank I work for, in my own Scrum Teams, we could also take the sustainability perspective. Taking the sustainability perspective was a new approach for the team, but everyone agreed on its importance.

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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. What is Agile?

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Building blocks of the next generation of Organisations

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Having devoted communities aid in the organisation's ability to conduct its business, sustain itself, and produce excellent results. He has helped many organisations adopt agile software delivery practices, including large banking, payments, telecom, and product organisations. Co-workers ? Coworkers are no longer colleagues.

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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

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Total Quality Management: Here the quality of the product is dependent on the participating constituents, some sustainable and controllable, others not. The Software Industry. In software development, quality assurance is a way to monitor the software engineering processes.

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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson

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From the long list of observation, heuristics, and mental models in psychology, organizational design, or software engineering, I pick six “agile laws” that seem to be particularly relevant in this area of distributed agile teams: Conway’s Law. Agile Laws: Conway, Brooks, Hackman, Goodhart, Larman, and Parkinson. Brooks’s Law.

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How To Carry Out a Requirements Analysis

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Requirements analysis in software engineering . While requirements analysis is beneficial to any project, it is most common in software engineering. In software engineering, requirements analysis, known as requirement engineering, defines expectations for new software being built or modified. .