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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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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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The Scrum Master Job (1): 4 Steps to Identify Suitable Employers or Clients

Scrum.org

Lean startup. The purpose of this exercise is to discover an organization’s use of agile practices and the associated fluency level by answering questions as: Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean UX, Design Thinking — What are they practicing? How many engineers or engineering teams are working for the organization? Scrum Master.

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

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You can thank Marc Andreessen , the American entrepreneur, investor and software engineer, for the hyphenated phrase. Dan Olsen, an expert in product management and author of The Lean Product Playbook , has emphasized product-market fit as critical to the success of a start-up. What is Product-Market Fit?

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The Agile Feature-driven Development Methodology

The Strategic Project Manager

Plan by feature – With a list of features in hand, planning includes: prioritization, grouping according to skill set, and other considerations specific to the situation. FDD best practices are derived from good software engineering practices. Either way should fit nicely into the FDD framework. FDD can go beyond that.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. The reason for this surge in popularity is quite understandable, the majority of projects benefit when managed using lean concepts promoted by Agile project management methodology.

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46 Best Trello Alternatives For Your Project Management in 2023

Workzone

It’s specifically built for technicl creatives—such as game developers, UX designers and software engineers. Leankit This is one of the leading lean project management companies that emphasize optimization and eliminating waste. Swip Lean, Lean, Lean. Pricing: $6.80-$12.75/month month for 5 users 6.

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Project Delivery through the Definition of Done

Project Pulse Journal

It ensures that the most agile software development projects are completed on time and adhere to high-quality standards and readiness for the next iteration or release. This is the usual approach in software engineering, which heavily applies the agile framework in combination with how collaborative and flexible the teams work.