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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. What Is Kanban?

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

Scrum has been around for a while, they say. The Scrum Guide holds the definition of Scrum, they say. The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? What else happened along the road to the way that Scrum is defined and represented?

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. This is the ability of team members to act in concert without explicit coordination (MacMillan, Entin & Serfaty, 2004). You can also see it at work when one developer offers to pair up with another developer because the task is difficult.

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Gunther Verheyen

Scrum has been around for a while, they say. The Scrum Guide holds the definition of Scrum, they say. The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? What else happened along the road to the way that Scrum is defined and represented?

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The Origins of Scrum Might Not Be What You Think They Are (Wisdom from Rafael Sabbagh)

Gunther Verheyen

In the summer of 2019 I got in touch with O’Reilly Media about their ambition to add a book about Scrum to their “97 Things” series. For that reason I did not want any specific Scrum accountability in the title.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products , Jim Highsmith, Addison Wesley, 2004.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

Scrum.org

Their paper provides useful insights into why the Scrum Framework might be so effective when it comes to managing complex work. Their article inspired me to apply the same insights to Scrum and to extend it with my own. Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. waterfalls) are very likely to fail.

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