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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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The kanban board is broken down into columns that represent the different stages of a process, and the kanban cards are individual tasks that move from one column to the next as they move through the process. This created less waste and increased the efficiency of processes. When one bin is empty, the next bin refills it.

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Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?

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The waterfall methodology is a process where project activities are broken down into linear phases. Design : There are two parts to this phase, including logical design and physical design, all resulting in the software or product architecture. Waterfall as a process is linear, while agile is iterative. Let’s take a look.

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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

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Quality control is more concerned with quality earlier in the project process. This provides a systematic measurement and comparison with a standard, along with a monitory of processes and a feedback loop to make sure no errors pass through production. Quality control, however, is primarily just focused on process output.

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The Agile Manifesto, Explained

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This is a way of thinking, more than a methodology, some would say, as it’s not so structured as to become rigid and calcified in process. Agile speaks to the fast-changing world of software development and understanding that environment, which is often fraught with uncertainly. Working software is the primary measure of progress.

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How To Carry Out a Requirements Analysis

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It’s a process of identifying, analyzing, and managing project requirements to determine what the project should accomplish and eliminate any ambiguities or conflicting requirements in your project plan. . As you conduct the requirements analysis process, remember that any accepted requirements must be: Documented.

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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson

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From the long list of observation, heuristics, and mental models in psychology, organizational design, or software engineering, I pick six “agile laws” that seem to be particularly relevant in this area of distributed agile teams: Conway’s Law. Agile Laws: Conway, Brooks, Hackman, Goodhart, Larman, and Parkinson. Brooks’s Law.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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But adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility. Adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility.”. I prefer a process-based definition of agility. Although we used Scrum teams for our investigation, these processes are generic enough to apply to Agile teams in general.

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