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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. What Is Kanban?

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Contracting for Agile Software Development Efforts

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Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. The Product Vision should be included in an appendix to the contract for reference with respect to questions on prioritization of the Product Backlog and updates to a Product Roadmap.

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Agile Project Management: Principles, Meetings, Values & Tools

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Frustrated developers started to introduce new methods, such as Scrum, rapid application development, extreme programming, DSMD, features-driven development and pragmatic programming. The Manifesto for Agile Software Development or just the Agile Manifesto laid out four key values and from there 12 agile principles.

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The Difference Between Right Sizing and Same Sizing of Work Items (and Why You Should Care)

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Right-sizing in Agile refers to the practice of customizing the size of work items in your backlog to match their inherent complexity and effort required to the time interval of your cadence. Real-World Example of Right Sizing: Take a software development project. What Is Right-Sizing?

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Top 5 objections to Scrum (and why those objections are wrong)

Scrum.org

One thing that every team has had in common is that, at one time, they were new to Scrum. When I engage with teams to discuss implementing the Scrum framework, they often raise potential impediments to adopting Scrum. Below are the five most common objections to Scrum and why they don’t hold any weight. .

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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. They all feature on PMI’s exam reference materials list. Instead, you would probably get more use out of investing your reading time in User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Mike Cohn).

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

Scrum.org

What contexts are Scrum suited to, and which not? Perhaps you’ve read many blog posts about how horrible SAFe is, or how useless estimation is, or what the optimal size of a team is. What if you end up applying a methodology like Scrum to a context where it isn’t suited, and people leave the company as a result?

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