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The PM Skills You Can Forget About (And the Ones You Really Need to Know)

LiquidPlanner

But I think it’s more likely to be that business systems today are far more integrated, lean and systemized than ever before. We’ve moved on from the idea that a few impact and influence grids can actively manage other people’s behavior. Perhaps it is because we have a better understanding of who is affected by a project.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. This means this methodology greatly influences how your team operates and might even require you to make hiring decisions based on it. What Is Kanban?

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Lean Portfolio Management Operations: An Agile Approach

Planview

This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management for the enterprise. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading: Part 1: What is Lean Portfolio Management? Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding. Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE).

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Lean Change Management – 4 Years Later

Agile Coach

A friend of mine asked me on twitter what my 3 main things I’ve learned teaching my Lean Change Agent workshops and what the main takeaways from attendees were. It’s also important to understand what influenced thinking about org change differently. First, How Lean Change Agent Came to Be. Next, Some Stats.

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5 Kaizen Principles That Underpin the Methodology

ProjectManager.com

Since then, the implications have reached beyond industry and the kaizen principles have been used to help in healthcare, psychotherapy, government, banking and even life coaching. It’s been around in Japan since after World War II, though influenced by quality management ideas from the United States. It keeps companies flexible.

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The Agile Transformation Coach: Understanding the Roles and Responsibilities

Leading Agile

This role is, in effect, a high-influence peer to the executives who act as a trusted advisor. The TL should be persuasive, politically aware, highly driven, and possess the gravitas to influence other executives. Lean/Agile Leader. Lean/Agile Leadership Practitioner. Lean Portfolio Management. Transformation Lead.

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Are you an unbeliever?

Kiron Bondale

We always want to lead disruptive, innovative, sexy projects but just because you are working on a mandatory project doesn’t mean that your team members can’t express their creativity, especially in coming up with lean solutions to the minimal requirements. If so, why wouldn’t you want to support it?

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