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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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10 Data Protection Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Yes, you'll have a data protection officer or some other similar role on the team, but you also need to have some basic understanding for what it means for changing your process or building your new software or feature. The simplest example is if your business builds new software. What is a Data Privacy Impact Assessment?

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

Ready to transform your approach to project management and software development? Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges. What are the Top 5 Agile Methodologies?

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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

Planio

But what if you’ve never written a line of code in your life? While most technical project managers aren’t expected to code (and most haven’t done serious development work in years), they have the background to make technical decisions, understand tradeoffs, and spot risks that a typical project manager might miss.

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Project Delivery through the Definition of Done

Project Pulse Journal

From individual coding tasks to large-scale releases, the DoD sets the bar for quality and completeness, ensuring everyone - from developers to stakeholders - is on the same page. Due to their different approaches to project management, this definition varies significantly between Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Embracing the Hybrid Project Revolution

NimbleWork

Due to strong resistance against such changes even among organizations claiming to adopt pure Agile, there may exist as many flavors of Agile as the organizations adopting them. Waterfall methodology refers to the sequential phase-gated project management workflow. So, what is the Waterfall methodology for project management?

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

Scrum.org

Starting changing, and I am not referring to the introduction of a new video conferencing tool, always requires the acceptance that there is a problem that needs attention. Frederick Brooks stated in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”.