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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. As a project manager, it’s important to understand the difference between kanban and scrum so you can determine the best approach for your team. What Is Scrum?

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Agile Project Management: Principles, Meetings, Values & Tools

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By using incremental steps towards completing a project, agile teams can easily adjust their project plan or product development plan to better meet their customer requirements. That flexibility must be evident in agile software, too. Teams work on the tasks that they decided on in a sprint planning meeting. Agile Board.

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How to Run a Great Daily Scrum Meeting

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The word “Scrum” almost sounds like an insult, or maybe even the surname of a less than scrupulous character in a Charles Dickens novel. But in fact, Scrum is a way to address complexity. Scrum comes from software development, where it is part of Agile methodology. What Is the Daily Scrum Meeting?

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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. What Is Kanban?

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A PM’s Guide to Agile Software Development

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Everybody’s talking about agile software development these days: project managers, software developers, IT directors, small startups and big corporations. What is Agile Software Development? Agile software development is an approach that promotes delivering value quickly to the customer.

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Why Agile Engineering Practices in Software Development Are Essential to Achieve Agility

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Frameworks such as Scrum are meant to support agility. Sprints are short planning horizons and the artefacts and events in Scrum are there to provide greater transparency and opportunities to inspect and adapt based on early feedback, changes in conditions and new information. After all, Scrum is just a framework.

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Why Predictability Matters in Scrum

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Telling an important customer that “we will get there when we get there” could come across as dismissive, sending the message that the customer’s needs are unimportant to the Scrum team. Agile approaches can help organizations meet tough deadlines and navigate shifting priorities by making teams more predictable rather than less.

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