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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO

There are many, often overlapping approaches to managing projects, the most popular of which are waterfall, agile, hybrid, critical path method, and critical chain project management , among others. Agile , which includes subvariants such as Lean and Scrum, is increasing in popularity and is being utilized in virtually every industry.

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Distributed Teams & its Impact in Scrum Project

SCRUMstudy

Agile principle states, “The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.”This This is why Scrum recommends co-located teams. Training plays an important role in setting individual teams into Scrum teams. The possibilities are endless.

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5 Steps of Building Communities of Practice

Evolution4all

It radically enhanced the exchange of knowledge and more importantly, it can be used by any company, from manufacturers to banks, government agencies, small businesses and multinational companies including yours. There are several advantages to establishing a community of practice in your business.

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32 Best Jira Alternatives For Agile Project Management Teams In 2020 [Free & Paid]

Codegiant

It’s an agile project management tool (from 2002) built for software developers and owned by Atlassian. With Jira Software, you’ll have extra agile flexibility which enables you to fully plan your projects from project backlog to sprint. Jira Kanban, Scrum and Scrumban boards. Jira’s agile UI can also be a bit cumbersome.

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Pros and Cons of Hiring Freelance Project Manager

Mobilunity

Agile is a contrasting methodology to Waterfall. Scrum is a development method under the Agile umbrella. Kanban is another Agile methodology focused on the visualization of a workflow. The difference in salaries allows accessing a high level of expertise at a fraction of the price even for small businesses and startups.

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5 Key Points Any Fintech Solutions Provider Must Keep in Mind to Succeed

Trigent

They need to adopt agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban to ensure rapid iterations, minimize risks, and enhance business value. The transaction costs made credit card processing extremely expensive for small businesses back then. Time is of the essence when it comes to use cases like payments processing.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Before that, cloud computing itself took off in roughly 2010 (AWS was founded in 2006); and Agile goes back to 2000 (the Agile Manifesto dates back to 2001, Extreme Programming to 1999). The web is over 30 years old; the Netscape browser appeared in 1994, and it wasn’t the first. 2023 was one of those rare disruptive years.

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