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Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing

Digite

Inspired by grocery stores, which stock only as much product as people need, Toyota’s manufacturing teams began using cards, or kanbans, to signal to other parts of the production line that they needed more parts. Instead of using timeboxes to govern their work, as a Scrum team does, a Kanban team uses WIP limits.

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 Executive’s Guide To Large-Scale Agile Transformation & Sustaining An Adaptive Enterprise w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

What does it look like when we’re trying to figure out how to do agile governance? Not only at the team level, but at the program level at the portfolio level, at the strategy level, like at the macro level of governance and that was kind of the problem that we really set off to solve. But a lot of times, and you guys know this.

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Leveraging Agile to Get Predictable

Leading Agile

And so, from how we do governance and how we do project planning and how we do organizational structure, all those kinds of things, right, so there’s this big hop. Because those are the things that fundamentally get in the way how we govern, right, how we deal with cross cutting concerns. Backlogs becomes governance.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. And then tying that together into a network and then applying Lean principles to designing an organization that can get stuff done. How do you like fix it? Now it turns out the way you fix it, is you get to be aligned on value.

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Why Agile Transformation Fails | AgileIndy 2021

Leading Agile

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. We have to figure out how to install governance. None of the stuff on scaling was out there. We have to start getting predictable.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Audit: The process of analyzing a project to ensure that it is being governed as intended. Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc. This approach is frequently used in manufacturing to minimize inventory management. A project sponsor can request an audit.

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Project Management: Principles, Practices & Context

Velociteach

More recently, the profession has grappled with two intertwined questions: Should principles or processes govern project management? Lean manufacturing influenced the quality movement, Agile , and DevOps. Lean organizations achieve these goals through empowerment and incremental change.

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