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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

He’s considered the father of the Toyota Production System, which was what it was first called. Kanban Origin: Toyota Kanban System This kanban system was called the Toyota kanban system, though it was originally referred to as just-in-time (JIT) production. Kanban as a name came later.

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Clarifying Misconceptions of the Big Launch

Rebel’s Guide to PM

However, as students of the lean entrepreneurship movement hear repeatedly, it’s usually not a good idea to launch your product with a “big bang.” When we look through the cases we’ve analyzed, this pattern of a product or service launching and then later having a big event “to blow it up” appears to be common.

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I was interviewed by Diego Nei for the Brazilian blog, Papo GP (Talking PM – I think I’ve got that right). — Today, on our Project Management Methodologies Series, we’re going to interview Elizabeth Harrin, from the award-winning blog A Girl’s Guide to Project Management. Take it further.

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Get Motivated: 10 Motivational Speeches That Will Change Your Life

ProjectManager.com

Barack Obama, DNC Speech, 2004. Before Barack Obama became the first African-American President of the United States, when he was little known outside the grassroots activist community in Chicago, he was given a national platform as the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Empathy is a choice.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). The reason is that products in the marketplace are becoming obsolete at a faster rate than even before.

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., Journal of Product Innovation Management. 2014), and Jugdev et al., Managing project time effectively may eliminate many of the causes we have identified.

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Clarifying Misconceptions of the Big Launch

Rebel’s Guide to PM

However, as students of the lean entrepreneurship movement hear repeatedly, it’s usually not a good idea to launch your product with a “big bang.” When we look through the cases we’ve analyzed, this pattern of a product or service launching and then later having a big event “to blow it up” appears to be common.

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