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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

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The agile manifesto includes principles such as “continuous delivery of valuable software”, “continuous attention to technical excellence” and “at regular intervals the team reflects on how to become more effective”. Following these principles are a greater enabler of agility than following the Scrum framework alone. Sheppard & W.

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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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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.” For example, the development team used to-.

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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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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.