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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

Kanban Origin: Toyota Kanban System This kanban system was called the Toyota kanban system, though it was originally referred to as just-in-time (JIT) production. Visualizing workflow processes helped Toyota identify potential issues and bottlenecks in the workflow, which could be resolved to keep an optimal pace.

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What are the focus areas of an Agile Coach?

Scrum.org

I have taken this model as a reference to help illustrate the focus areas of an Agile coach when it comes to Coaching. He has helped many organisations adopt agile software delivery practices, including large banking, payments, telecom, and product organisations. My definition of Agile Coaching.

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5 Scrum Myths – Busted

Scrum.org

People often refer to Scrum as Methodology. He has helped a wide variety of organizations adopt agile software delivery practices, including large banking, payments, telecom, and product organizations. He started his career as a Software Engineer and spent almost 8 years as a hard-core Programmer. Source: wiki.

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Building blocks of the next generation of Organisations

Scrum.org

He has helped many organisations adopt agile software delivery practices, including large banking, payments, telecom, and product organisations. He started his career as a Software Engineer and spent almost eight years as a hard-core Programmer. References. He loves reading books, travelling and public speaking.

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Why People Are the Most Important Resource in the Company

Inloox

We've all heard phrases like "our resources are depleted" However, in HR, phrases like "we need more resources for our software engineering team" are also quite common. Internal resources are also referred to as personal resources. Or do you have a project budget in mind that is running low?

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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

Scrum.org

In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking. Software development did not get the same kind of focus it got elsewhere, and software engineers did not get the same kind of respect they earned in the West.

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Integrated product teams

Musings on Project Management

If you search "Crosstalk, the journal of defense software engineering", you'll find zillions of articles that reference the IPT. The US DoD has had the concept of the Integrated Product Team (IPT) for a couple of decades. And, if you search www.dau.mil, you'll also find a wealth of material.