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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. When to Use It: The practice originated in software development and works well in that culture. Top 10 Project Management Methodologies.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. While scrum has been scaled to apply to bigger projects and organizations, its roots are in agile software development and has come to work seamlessly in that smaller, nimble environment.

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Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding

Planview

This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading part one first, “ What is Lean Portfolio Management ,” which you can find here . In this post, we’ll discuss a fundamental component of Lean portfolio management: funding. This is where Lean budgeting comes in.

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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

Digite

This book describes why students, parents, business leaders, major corporations, and world governments all see immediate results with Personal Kanban. Principle of Product Development Flow. If you want to improve or create the flow in your product development process start with this book! By Don Reinertsen. By Arne Roock. (31

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Productivity and IT Organizations - Some questions answered

Scrum.org

Of course, in the area of software development, this has been written about for decades and the challenges were first introduced to us in Fred Brooks’ Mythical Man-Month in 1975. . But keeping teams as lean as possible reduces the number of hand-offs, communication overhead, and complexity. . But does this approach really work?

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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Instead, you would probably get more use out of investing your reading time in User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Mike Cohn). I would suggest it’s User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn. User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn.

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SAFe® Agile Certification Cost in 2022

Agilemania

Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe is a set of organization and workflow patterns intended to guide organizations in scaling lean and agile practices. Agile software development. Lean Product Development. SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) 5.1. SAFe® for Government. SAFe® Government Practitioner. $50.