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Agile Principles – Sustainable Pace

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This time we are focussing on the following Agile principle – “Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.”. Agile approaches like Scrum have long promoted the importance of working at a sustainable pace.

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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.

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Working toward Sustainable Pace in Scrum and Kanban

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Aiming toward Sustainable Pace. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely." - The Agile Manifesto Principle. If you are an agile leader - do you know whether your teams are currently operating at a sustainable pace?

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Working towards Sustainable Pace in Scrum and Kanban

Scrum.org

Aiming towards Sustainable Pace. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely." - The Agile Manifesto Principle. If you are an agile leader - do you know whether your teams are currently operating at a sustainable pace?

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

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However, I would argue that investing in engineering practices that help to build in quality or allows tasks to be automated for example enables sustainable development in the long run. Either way, it is questionable that an agile process without underlying agile practices applied can be agile at all.

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A PM’s Guide to Agile Software Development

Project Bliss

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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In-Depth: The Science On Sustainable Pace, Stress, And Motivation

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How sustainable is your pace as a developer? Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. Although this is often the result of “death marches” and similar requests from management, there are also many situations where developers do this out of their own will.