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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

Learn more History of Kanban Kanban was first introduced in Japan as a lean manufacturing approach pioneered by Taiichi Ohno in the late 1940s. The book laid out the principles of lean manufacturing, which focuses on reducing waste, creating customer value and seeking continuous process improvement, and kanban.

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Product-Market Fit: What Is It & Why Is It Important?

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You can thank Marc Andreessen , the American entrepreneur, investor and software engineer, for the hyphenated phrase. Dan Olsen, an expert in product management and author of The Lean Product Playbook , has emphasized product-market fit as critical to the success of a start-up. What is Product-Market Fit?

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The Scrum Master Job (1): 4 Steps to Identify Suitable Employers or Clients

Scrum.org

Lean startup. The purpose of this exercise is to discover an organization’s use of agile practices and the associated fluency level by answering questions as: Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean UX, Design Thinking — What are they practicing? How many engineers or engineering teams are working for the organization? Scrum Master.

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Creating A Community Of Practice For Scrum Masters

Scrum.org

In a Scrum Team, apart from a Scrum Master and Product Owner, we might have experts in software engineering, in testing, in technical writing, in marketing, etc. We can’t expect a software engineer to know all the nuances of marketing – these are wildly different sets of knowledge and skills. Applying to your work.

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Getting Hired as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach

Scrum.org

The purpose of this exercise before getting hired as a Scrum Master is to discover an organization’s use of agile practices and the associated fluency level by shedding some light on questions as: Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean UX, Design Thinking — What are they practicing? How many engineers or engineering teams are working for the organization?

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. The reason for this surge in popularity is quite understandable, the majority of projects benefit when managed using lean concepts promoted by Agile project management methodology.

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Raise No More Devils: Improving Organizational Capacity

Leading Agile

How do you identify commonalities when all the work in the organization consists of highly localized, independent requests from mid-level and low-level managers whose own performance reviews are based on individual performance within the bounds of their particular group? A Little Help. guide is 816 pages long.