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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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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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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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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?

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The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum. That hasn’t stopped practitioners from using scrum in varying industries, from retail logistics to event planning.

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Backlog Review (Nulab – 2019)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Backlog started life as a tool for software developers, and it shows. If you work in a different setting, there’s still scope for you to make use of the tool, and the company website has case studies from a number of industries including retail, logistics, financial services and others, so it definitely translates to other industries.

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What Is a Service-Level Agreement? (Example & Templates Included)

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But you’ll also find SLAs in customer service, healthcare, logistics and education. The IT industry uses service-level agreements most for everything from cloud computing to network management and database management services.

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Scrum Master vs Project Manager: What’s the Difference?

Project Bliss

For this reason, the Scrum Master can also do other things, such as coach other teams, or produce work toward product development. Even if you’re working in software development, and the Scrum Master is non-technical, there are still valuable activities that she can do in addition to the role of Scrum Master.

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We are entering the Deployment Phase of the Digital Age

Scrum.org

Scrum, agile thinking, modern software development working practices are synonymous with Digital Technology and have evolved out of the fundamentally different characteristics of the opportunity presented by technology. I am reminded of executives sitting in call centers, and in logistic offices during the first days of the pandemic.