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Acceptance Criteria in Project Management: A Quick Guide

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Below are two examples of acceptance criteria: one for a manufacturing project and another for a user story in software development. Acceptance Criteria Examples Acceptance criteria vary across industries and project types, but they always serve the same purposedefining the conditions a deliverable must meet to be considered complete.

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Six Sigma: A Simple Guide for Project Managers

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Lean focuses on eliminating eight areas of waste: defects, overproduction, waiting, non-utilized talent, transportation, inventory, motion and extra-processing. As Agile methods continue to grow from the software development egg in which they were hatched, the style has found itself saddling up with Six Sigma.

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How to Make a CPM Schedule: CPM Scheduling Basics

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The critical path method is widely used in the transportation market, but it can apply to construction, aerospace and defense, software development, research, product development, engineering and plant maintenance projects, just to name a few.

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Agile or Waterfall: How to Choose Which is Best for Your Project

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A PM’s Guide to Agile Software Development. Much like trying to determine which is the best form of transportation for your travel, there are various considerations to take into account. Yet different modes of transportation and routes could be good for different reasons. There’s not one right answer.

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What is interactive, incremental delivery? The hunt for the perfect example.

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A software development lifecycle perspective. Another way to discuss iterative, incremental delivery is to look at it from the software development life cycle (SDLC) perspective. The diagram below shows the SDLC for a typical waterfall approach compared to Agile product development. Is this a good example? .

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How the 12 principles in the Agile Manifesto work in real life

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The agilists below them focus on the goal, which is transportation. This is the third time that the word software has shown up in one of the principles of the Agile Manifesto. In their first delivery, they manage to deliver a skateboard. In their second delivery, a skateboard with handles.

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The 5 Lean Principles: Definitions & How to Use Them

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This led to lean manufacturing, but today lean is used in more industries, such as project management, software development, construction and more. Transportation. Lean management originated in Japan, where it grew out of the Toyota Production System. Womack and Daniel T. Jones declared that there were five key lean principles.

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