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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. While scrum has been scaled to apply to bigger projects and organizations, its roots are in agile software development and has come to work seamlessly in that smaller, nimble environment.

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The Agile Manifesto from a Lean Perspective

Scrum.org

The result of this buzz session was, of course, the Agile ‘Software Development’ Manifesto. To what extent, for example, is the Manifesto a reflex of “lean thinking”? Along with methods of round-trip development, it was in a sort of ascendancy at the time. Can we perhaps see into the minds of those who were there?

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

Ready to transform your approach to project management and software development? Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. Columns include "Reported," "Confirmed," "In Development," "Testing," and "Deployed."

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Lean A project management philosophy that aims to maximize value while minimizing waste. Lean Six Sigma Combining Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to eliminate defects and waste. RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) Log A document that tracks and manages project risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.

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Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile: Strategies for Success

NimbleWork

As the Agile project management framework reaches adoption maturity at lean, progressive and disruptive startup firms, many teams at established organizations are struggling to fully embrace the Agile project management framework at scale. A variety of models and frameworks for adopting the Agile project management methodology exist.

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Shift-Left, Shift-Right, Keep Middle

Velociteach

Critical assumptions and decisions set the project context during these formative stages, influencing planning and execution. Had I been engaged sooner, I could have influenced the decisions or been aware of the pending pitfalls. The concept is at the core of Agile software development.

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What is a Continuous Delivery Pipeline and Why is it Needed in Agile?

Agilemania

It is a method of automating some important phases in the software development process. Other agile software development success factors, such as build automation, version control, and automated deployments, serve as inspiration. Automatic pipelines shorten delivery times while also lowering the risk of dumb negligence.