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Kanban is a methodology that was developed alongside lean manufacturing. It was originally designed to be used with lean manufacturing, but it can also be used independently of lean. So what is Kanban? Kanban is a project management system invented by Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota. Kanban involves a technique to organize and track project progress visually, which is widely used…

Agile Methodology: Lean Software Development

Lean Software Development is one of the methodologies in Agile that is gaining traction in the industry. Originally, it started when Toyota adopted in the mid-90s the lean thinking concept as a way of reducing risk within projects. Here, the focus of the approach is to reduce waste, start new work only when necessary, reduce process bottlenecks and work only on things that will add value to the…

What is SCRUM? Scrum is a lightweight agile practice that doesn’t take too much time away from production, uses both the iterative and incremental system process models, and enhances predictability and mitigates risks. Pillars of SCRUM Transparency It means that everyone can see every part of the project. This means that both the Scrum team and the client is familiar of the development…

Agile Methodology: Extreme Programming (XP)

Here’s a quick review of the terms I have previously noted in my Coursera course: Software Processes and Agile Practices: Software Process – models that you use to organize development into phases. Software Practices – techniques or actions that you can use to help manage and track development Methodologies – are defined groups of practices Agile Practices and Agile Methodologies – practices…

Agile Practice: Continuous Delivery

All throughout the week, I have shared to you the most common software process models that a software product manager can best use for his/her product development. After the prototype is complete and once the product is ready for the client feedback, there are times when even if the prototype function well during development, it may not work as well for the client. To avoid this, it is an…

Software Process Model: Prototyping

In all the software process models I’ve shared, the spiral and the unified process models have used prototyping as a way to complete the phases. So, really, what is prototyping?

Software prototyping is the activity of creating prototypes of software applications. Prototypes are either a representation of the idea, or an incomplete version of the software product being developed. In other…

Software Process Model: Unified Process Models

I’ve already shared to you about the Linear Models and the Spiral Model, so now, let me share to you my notes on another iterative model of software development — the Unified Process Model or Unified Process.

A Unified Process is an iterative model of software development where its basic structure is to work in a series of phases which get repeated until the final phase is complete. How are…

Software Process Model: Spiral Models

In software product management, knowing what tools to use for a particular project of software development is important to be able to make the right choice in using the appropriate process. Another set of process models I’ve taken note in the Coursera course, Software Processes and Agile Practices are the spiral models, or the iterative software process models.

Iterative Software process…

Software Process Model: Linear Models

In software development, it is essential to learn the software process models. Understanding a variety of processes will greatly help to make the best choice of a process model appropriate for the project at hand. These are:

Linear Models

Spiral Models

Unified Process

Prototyping

Continuous Delivery

LINEAR MODELS

Linear process models follow a pattern of phases completed one after another…

What’s Wrong with the World?

A quick break from learning more about software product management, I just wanna share my thoughts about what is wrong with the world based on the daily bread devotion I just read.

FAMILY. When you check for news, articles pop up simultaneously when celebrity couples divorce, or children abandoned, or families divided.

COMMUNITY.People will hear gossips about a neighbour, or a crime that…

Foundational Concepts of SPM

I am knowing more about software product management through the specialization Coursera course I am taking: Software Product Management taught by instructors from University of Alberta.

Previously, my notes covered about what is software product management (SPM) and Agile development. Today, I will be sharing my notes for the foundational concepts I learned:

In SPM, there are 4 core…

Concepts in SPM (Agile Software Development)

In any project, there are parameters for measuring success:

on-time delivery

completion of project within budget

delivery of complete features or requirements

In software product management, it is the same. However, there are added items:

The number of post-release bugs

The technical support needed after a software release

The software product’s customer rating

The revenue generated

The…

Intro to Software Product Management

Pardon me if I am now using my blog as my online notes, but I am now on a learning journey! I have realized a lot this 2020, in terms of career, lovelife (that’s for another blog post ;-)) and finances. Now, I am taking one step at a time to improve myself, and the series of blogs I am writing are records of my learning journey. So if you are okay with learning more about my world, feel free to…

As part of my recalling the ideas in the course I am currently taking right now, which is entitled, Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects, Barbara Oakley shared that testing ourself on the materials we just learned is a powerful learning experience.

Dr. Richard Felder, a legendary educator, has developed a checklist that we can use to see whether our…

Understanding More about Learning

For the past month, I have been working on my coursera course entitled, “Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help”. To those of you who do not know me, I am Yza from the Philippines (you can call me wy-za) and I am a working professional with more than 6 years experience on product development, particularly for Product Management. Lately, I am really interested with programming and I…

On Lockdown: What I Did during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

It’s been a while since I last posted here in my blog, maybe because I was too busy, or I have other priorities than writing my thoughts here and sharing it to you, my dear reader.

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However, the universe has a way of saying, “Stop and Chill”. Last March 17, our Philippine government has declared an Enhanced Community Quarantine, generally a lock down, to prevent…

Matthew 5:3-12

“Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for…