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IBM Project Manager Certificate: My Student Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Summary review The IBM Project Manager Professional Certificate is a good CAPM® alternative or course to use towards your CAPM prep. I spent a lot of hours reviewing the materials and studying the individual courses, and I hope that time helps you make a choice about whether the course is a good fit for your career needs.

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Application Agility: Overcoming the Complexity Barrier

Leading Agile

Once that fear takes hold, organizations and engineering teams mitigate it by adding layers of processes to ensure quality. This results in a development culture where code is only ever added, not changed or removed, to avoid the risk of unintended bugs. Software exists to bring value to the customer by supporting a product.

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Five reasons why Scrum is not helping in getting twice the work done in half the time

Scrum.org

They got the idea of increasing the complexity of dependency management and longer lead time due to the handoffs having individual accountability. Or measuring things like defects per story, defect removal efficiency and code coverage, etc. They got training on Scrum, understood concepts, and formed teams, but struggle to commit.

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Scrum and Lean Thinking - What's the relation?

Scrum.org

Lean Software Development As Scrum is typically utilized by Software Engineering teams, I will shift the focus to Lean Software Development. Lean Software Development focuses on applying a few principles from Lean Thinking to Software Development in order to make software product delivery more efficient.

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

ProjectManager.com

You can thank Marc Andreessen , the American entrepreneur, investor and software engineer, for the hyphenated phrase. Look into software and other tools that can further enhance the user experience to reflect the actual product when it’s finalized. The due diligence your marketing team puts in will pay off in sales.

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Zen and Code Maintenance

Leading Agile

The connection with software development/maintenance is probably obvious. Tying Up Loose Ends in Software. If anything, you ought to ask for special permission not to keep the code clean as you go. Keeping code clean at all times really ought to be considered baseline job performance for a software engineer.