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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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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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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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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

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Total Quality Management: Here the quality of the product is dependent on the participating constituents, some sustainable and controllable, others not. The Software Industry. In software development, quality assurance is a way to monitor the software engineering processes.

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How To Carry Out a Requirements Analysis

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Requirements analysis in software engineering . While requirements analysis is beneficial to any project, it is most common in software engineering. In software engineering, requirements analysis, known as requirement engineering, defines expectations for new software being built or modified. .