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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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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.

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Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management

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Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. When I googled “software development life cycle definition” I found different variants. Phases in Software Development. Concept Development.

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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.

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The Agile Manifesto, Explained

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Either way, agile offers a fast and nimble way to work that first benefited software development before expanding its reach to almost every industry. The phrase agile software development was first used in 2001, but agile was in fact being applied to projects since the mid-1990s. The Role of Cross-Functional Teams.

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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

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The software had to be just good enough for the client to sign off on it, and since they were largely captive clients unable to look outside their keiretsu group for support, that was a very low bar indeed ". In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking.

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What are the Technical Skill of a Software Development Project Manager?

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“I do not have the technical skill to become a software development project manager.” You do need to know the software development process, what goes into creating software applications. Once you are surrounded by software engineers, QA, BAs, and so on, you start to learn everything like a sponge.

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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

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Systems and groups were set up to specialize in quality assurance, and foremen and management were placed in a position to oversee this work. The aerospace industry has quality assurance, but calls it product assurance, which works in tandem with project management and engineering to avoid catastrophic failures that have a human cost.

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