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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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Get To Know Inloox: Martin - Software Engineer and Employee from “Day One”

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For me, InLoox means continuous development and challenge. Software development has definitely become much more professional. This is true for the industry itself as well as for our own InLoox team. Pierre: Software Developer at InLoox. Ortwin: Software Developer at InLoox.

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

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Phase 2: people from different industries are inspired by, and learn from what happens in the software world. As Tim Romero, Head of Google for Startups Japan puts it ( ⁸ ), " Japan’s software industry in the 80s and 90s remained much like it was in the mainframe area. Agility becomes an org-wide priority.

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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. Is Agile a Methodology?

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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

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The Industrial Revolution revolutionized quality assurance, too. Quality assurance has a place in most all industries, and the use of contractors or consultants to handle quality assurance is not unusual. The Medical Industry. The Aerospace Industry. The Software Industry. Quality Assurance in Practice.

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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.