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What Is Lean Portfolio Management? A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

There are many ways to do this and one of which is lean portfolio management. Let’s first define lean portfolio management and then delve into how it works. We’ll also explain when to use lean portfolio management and how project management software can help you manage your portfolios better. What Is Lean Portfolio Management?

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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When to Use It: The Waterfall approach is great for manufacturing and construction projects , which are highly structured, and when it’s too expensive to pivot or change anything after the fact. The car company applied it to their lean manufacturing model, known as the Toyota production system. Lean Methodology.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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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. For one, both are ideal for lean and agile projects, limiting work in process and favoring a continuous scheduling flow as opposed to pushing through a schedule.

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Agile Adoption and the Benefits of Agile Transformation By Roy Schilling

International Institute for Learning

About the Author Roy Schilling, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, ACP, ICP, ICP-ACC, PSM Agile Coach/Trainer For over 20 years, Roy Schilling has been working with organizations to build high performing teams and organizations using Agile and Lean methodologies.

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What Is Oracle Primavera Cloud? Uses, Features & Pricing

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Project scheduling: Oracle Primavera cloud integrates CPM scheduling with lean scheduling tools and the schedule comparison tool lets users compare schedule baselines and analyze project variance. It’s made for large and small projects alike and has been used in industries ranging from construction to manufacturing, energy and IT.

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5 Kaizen Principles That Underpin the Methodology

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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. The idea of always making small improvements is not dissimilar to lean manufacturing, especially with the emphasis of eliminating waste.

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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

Digite

This book describes why students, parents, business leaders, major corporations, and world governments all see immediate results with Personal Kanban. 31 pages, ET to read: 50 min, Published July 19th, 2012 by Lean-Kanban University). Scrumban and Other Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Dev. By Don Reinertsen.

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