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Product-Market Fit: What Is It & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

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. Get detailed feedback by surveying the customers.

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Useless Agile Metrics

Scrum.org

Some of these metrics include: Individual Performance Metrics or Velocity: Measuring individual productivity or comparing team members based on hours worked, lines of code, or tasks completed can harm collaboration and teamwork, and it goes against the agile principle of focusing on the team’s collective success.

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Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

Requirements can be collected through brainstorming sessions, focus groups, surveys, observation, and analysis of regulations and standards. Visual cues such as color-coding and swim lanes can be used to organize the milestones and deliverables by the owner, workstream, product, etc. Lines can be added to portray interdependencies.

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Shift-Left, Shift-Right, Keep Middle

Velociteach

Deferring this work honors the Lean principle of “deciding as late as possible” or “at the last responsible moment.” The concept is at the core of Agile software development. However, only a third of the features in commercial software are regularly used. Shift Right Shift-right activities may be done later in the project.

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10 Project Management Certifications | Upgrade Career Skills

Agilemania

Due to its enhanced and expanded value, it is much more valuable than any other kind of technical credential. At least $139,000 is the base salary reported by the top 25 percent of survey respondents. Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) , and test-driven development are among the subjects covered in the exam (TDD).

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How do you implement SAFe agile in your organization?

Agilemania

Source: 15th State of Agile Survey. Scaled Agile Framework is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, competencies for attaining business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps. Ensuring quality is an innate characteristic of Lean and Flow. Code Quality. Coach lean-agile change agents.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Embracing the Hybrid Project Revolution

NimbleWork

Over the years, the idea of operating a lean enterprise in a competitive and fast-paced business environment has led progressive organizations to adopt the Agile framework. One of the key ideas behind Agile is to deliver high-quality and working software products quickly.

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