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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

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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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum. That hasn’t stopped practitioners from using scrum in varying industries, from retail logistics to event planning.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. When to Use It: The practice originated in software development and works well in that culture. Top 10 Project Management Methodologies.

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What Is a Service-Level Agreement? (Example & Templates Included)

ProjectManager.com

But you’ll also find SLAs in customer service, healthcare, logistics and education. The IT industry uses service-level agreements most for everything from cloud computing to network management and database management services.

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Backlog Review (Nulab – 2019)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Backlog started life as a tool for software developers, and it shows. If you work in a different setting, there’s still scope for you to make use of the tool, and the company website has case studies from a number of industries including retail, logistics, financial services and others, so it definitely translates to other industries.

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What is Project Management

MPUG

This would have required Noah to plan and coordinate the construction of the ark, as well as gather the necessary resources and manage the logistics of boarding the animals onto the ark. They would also have needed to manage the logistics of acquiring the necessary resources and coordinating the efforts of the workers.

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We are entering the Deployment Phase of the Digital Age

Scrum.org

Scrum, agile thinking, modern software development working practices are synonymous with Digital Technology and have evolved out of the fundamentally different characteristics of the opportunity presented by technology. I am reminded of executives sitting in call centers, and in logistic offices during the first days of the pandemic.