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Review True lean

Henny Portman

With the book True lean – Your guide to the fundamentals connecting purpose, process and people written by Rudy Gort you get a concise but complete and clear overview of and insight into lean. The first part examines the origin of lean in order to understand the philosophy behind lean. In chronological order: Y?zan

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De 2e druk van mijn boek “Scrum Wegwijzer” is beschikbaar

Gunther Verheyen

In 2013 kreeg ik, eigenlijk bij toeval , van de Nederlandse uitgever Van Haren Publishing de kans aangeboden om een boek over Scrum te schrijven. De eerste versie kwam op de markt in november 2013. Vanuit mijn werk daarna bij Scrum.org (2013-2016) kreeg ik een goed beeld van de mondiale verspreiding van Scrum.

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6 Barriers to customer centricity

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Organizations with a project management culture that leans towards adherence to process, structure and policing of control mechanisms are likely to struggle implementing any customer-centric approach, despite it being essentially another project management process. This article first appeared on this website in 2013.

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Time Based Competition (TBC): A Strategic PM’s Perspective

The Strategic Project Manager

Jack Welch included Time in GE’s core principles of “speed, simplicity, and self-confidence” Lean and Six Sigma are based in part on the concept of using time as a strategic linchpin. ” Lean and Six Sigma came into vogue and have produced tremendous gains in productivity and process improvement. Jan 1, 1988.

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Dependency Management – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Scrum.org

Sutherland, Scrum Guide, 2013. Enable Flow: Conduct lean analyses such as Value Stream Mapping to identify waste and delays. What the Scrum Guide says: “Cross-functional teams have all competencies needed to accomplish the work without depending on others not part of the team. Schwaber and J.

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Daily Scrum Pocketcasts – Episode 2

Gunther Verheyen

Ever since the accidental creation of my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” in 2013, and its deliberate evolution in 2019, I’ve been receiving inquiries about an audiobook version. Combining Agile and Lean. Combining Agile and Lean. The house of Scrum. Scrum, what’s in a name? Framework, not methodology.

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Sequencing Product Backlog

MPUG

It exemplifies Little’s Law, which states that average work in progress equals the product of average flow rate and average flow time (Cahon and Terwiesch, 2013). The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development. The graph below illustrates the fundamental relationship of these variables.

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