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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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Getting Hired as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach

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

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Creating A Community Of Practice For Scrum Masters

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In a Scrum Team, apart from a Scrum Master and Product Owner, we might have experts in software engineering, in testing, in technical writing, in marketing, etc. We can’t expect a software engineer to know all the nuances of marketing – these are wildly different sets of knowledge and skills. Applying to your work.

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What is IT Service Management?

The IIL Blog

LEAN processes emerged in 1991, with the Agile Manifesto launched by a group of software engineers in 2001. ITIL v2 followed this in 2001, ITIL v3 in 2007, and ITIL 4 in 2019. As ITSM evolved, so did the ways of delivering Information Technology services.

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

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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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