Agile frameworks

There are several popular frameworks that implement the Agile manifesto, most notably the Scrum method, Kanban, the Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), and so on. A detailed discussion of these topics is outside the scope of this book. If you are not already familiar with these, I recommend that you read up on them. Scrum and Kanban are supported to an extent within MS Project. We will explore both methods and how they can come together alongside Waterfall in the following sections.

Kanban and MS Project

The word Kanban means signboard in the Japanese language. Kanban's methodology is a simple but powerful visual scheduling technique. It originated in the Toyota automobile factory, created by engineer Taiichi Ohno.

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Kanban is commonly used for an Agile non-iterative and incremental execution of the project. Scrum, on the other hand, implements short, iterative, full life cycles that incrementally execute the project.

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