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

Scrum.org

This is the ability of team members to act in concert without explicit coordination (MacMillan, Entin & Serfaty, 2004). This effect has been observed with flight crews (Orasuna, 1990), nuclear plant control crews (Waller, Gupta & Giambatista, 2004), and work teams (Urban et. In Achieving Quality in Software (pp. Kearney, E.,

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

In the end, the sources I used for describing the evolutions of the definition of Scrum are: The paper “SCRUM Software Development Process” by Ken Schwaber (1995, 1996). The book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (2002). The book “Agile Project Management with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber (2004).

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004. What are the most used tools and software on PRINCE2? PRINCE2 doesn’t mandate tools and software, you can use whatever you like – or nothing at all. Hello Elizabeth, thanks for coming, how are you? Well, thank you! No, not that I’m aware of.

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Test First approach sounds simply enough, right?

Scrum.org

A year later, in 2000, Kent Beck published another book called “ Test Driven Development by Example ” and explains Test Driven Development (TDD) is a software process and not about writing tests before the code with one more important aspect – refactoring. Behaviour-Driven Development (est 2004). Add a test. Independently Deployable.

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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. Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Don't hear one?

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Gunther Verheyen

In the end, the sources I used for describing the evolutions of the definition of Scrum are: The paper “SCRUM Software Development Process” by Ken Schwaber (1995, 1996) The paper “SCRUM: An extension pattern language for hyperproductive software development” by Mike Beedle, Martine Devos, Yonat Sharon, Ken Schwaber and Jeff (..)

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