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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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Kanban history has informed everything from manufacturing to software development. The kanban tool has become commonplace in project management and its uses continue to expand. The kanban system is a visual workflow tool that consists of a kanban board and kanban cards. Below are links to kanban board templates.

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Agile Laws to Help with Transformation

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The idea has been around for several years: design the teams according to the product requirements and give them autonomy to create the best possible solution from both a value proposition and an organizational sustainability perspective. Innovation that happens from the bottom up tends to be chaotic but smart. Learn more about Occam’s Razor.

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Raising Climate Awareness in Scrum Teams - a Scrum Master’s Journey

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Then last year, as I was looking for ways to become more sustainable, the idea started to grow that at the bank I work for, in my own Scrum Teams, we could also take the sustainability perspective. Taking the sustainability perspective was a new approach for the team, but everyone agreed on its importance.

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Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?

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Design : There are two parts to this phase, including logical design and physical design, all resulting in the software or product architecture. Implementation : In this phase, software engineers and developers return a beta version of the product after synthesizing the information from the research and design phases.

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9 Resume Screening Tools to Boost Your Hiring

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Below, we’ll chat about the importance of resume screening software, why hiring managers should be signing up for new software asap, and how applicant tracking systems are the future of hiring. A shift to evidence-based hiring puts resume screening tools in a tight corner. Discover more about the resume screening process.

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

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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.”.

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The Agile Manifesto, Explained

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Individuals and interactions over process and tools: Agile places more importance on people over process and even tools. Process and tools by their very nature are less responsive to change and can be unable to meet customer needs. Working software over comprehensive documentation: Documentation takes time.

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