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Agile vs Waterfall: What’s the Difference?

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Newton’s third law is also true in the case of agile vs waterfall, where one sprang to life as a reaction to the other. Created a few decades before the agile methodology, each phase is reliant upon the deliverables of the previous phase. An example of a waterfall plan on a Gantt chart in ProjectManager.com— Learn More!

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Application Agility: Overcoming the Complexity Barrier

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Complexity stands in the way of application agility. Once that fear takes hold, organizations and engineering teams mitigate it by adding layers of processes to ensure quality. WHAT CREATES APPLICATION AGILITY? Despite knowing what is needed for application agility, many organizations struggle to establish and maintain it.

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The Agile Manifesto, Explained

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More along the lines of project management, though, is the Agile Manifesto. Agile is a bit of a controversial topic in the field. Either way, agile offers a fast and nimble way to work that first benefited software development before expanding its reach to almost every industry. What Is Agile? You’re not alone.

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The Journey and Future of Scrum and Agile – A Reflection

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Reflecting on Two Decades of Agile Over 20 years ago, while working as a Software Engineer on an Air Defense System, I found myself in a traditional waterfall context. At that time, Agile practices and mindset were kept hidden from management to protect the little self-management we had.

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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The following are some examples of kanban and manufacturing. Kanban & Project Management Kanban project management works in an agile framework. Kanban works for agile software development and DevOps alike as it drives efficiency through seamless task progression on visualized workflows.

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Why does Agile focus on values and principles rather than a prescribed set of steps?

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Why does Agile focus on values and principles rather than a prescribed set of steps? Agile exists to address the idea that no predetermined set of steps will lead to a predefined outcome. In software that the production line may take the form of an automated build and deployment. A great example of that are scrum values.

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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson

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TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile. On many occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. In that respect, the current issues that many distributed teams face may also act as accelerants to become more agile.