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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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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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Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. If I’m in software development, it’s how quickly I can deliver the next release and what new functionality I can put in it.

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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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The 4 Essential Agile Tools for Agile Teams

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Agile is a way of working that comes from software development. While the roots of incremental development methods of working stem back to the 1950s and into the 1970s, it wasn’t until 2001 that a group of software developers published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

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How to Make an Agile Workflow for Your Team

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For a long time the agile framework influenced teams outside of the software development sector from which it originated. This is part of what’s called lean and just-in-time manufacturing, which makes sure that teams have just the amount of resources needed to fulfill their capacity to complete a given task. It’s ironic.

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Project management degrees: Do you need one and what you can do with it

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I do think that having a degree (of any kind, in any subject) is beneficial for securing a job, especially as project managers are expected to influence and lead, and many employers want to see evidence of the ability to operate at that level and use a degree as a benchmark for it. That’s about 2.3 million new jobs a year.

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Understanding the Scrum Framework for Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

Agile methodologies refer to software development methods based on iterative development, where solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams. Combining Lean techniques in software development addresses potential process weaknesses and promotes team member confidence.

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