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Agile Principles – Sustainable Pace

Scrum.org

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

Scrum.org

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. Many of the agile engineering practices are viewed as daunting and expensive to implement, and doing so will get in the way of delivery.

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Agility for a Sustainable World: Why We Need to Redefine The Meaning of Agility

Scrum.org

This year was the 20th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto for Software Development, and in many sectors, agile ways of working have long since become the standard. 1] This shows how urgently we need to become more sustainable. Agility is not an innate talent but a skill that anyone can learn and develop.

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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

Scrum.org

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.

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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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The Complete History of Agile Software Development

Agilemania

In the early 1990s, PC computing began to rise in organizations, but software development faced a hurdle. At that time, people used to call this crisis the “application delivery lag” or “the application development crisis.” Working software over comprehensive documentation.