NimbleWork

MARCH 7, 2024

As the Agile project management framework reaches adoption maturity at lean, progressive and disruptive startup firms, many teams at established organizations are struggling to fully embrace the Agile project management framework at scale. With this knowledge, you can approach your Agile transformation in different ways.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

This method has driven companies to new heights of efficiency and innovation, enriching every facet of project execution - from planning to evaluation - and boosting effectiveness and adaptability. Continuous improvement, or Kaizen, has revolutionized business practices since its inception in post-war Japan. What is Continuous Improvement?

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Skilled workforce – A highly skilled and motivated workforce can contribute to innovation, quality improvement, and customer service excellence, thereby adding value to the firm’s operations. Unique organizational culture – This shapes how firms operate and innovate.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

Initially focusing strictly on empowering teams to develop products and solutions faster and more efficiently, the tremendous success in doing business this way led to large enterprise-level organizations scaling the practice to meet their needs, even extending beyond the product organization. . What is SAFe?

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 4, 2024

It involves taking risks, being transparent about challenges and failures, and having the confidence to experiment and innovate. This action maintains cycle time and, with the application of lean principles, makes Kanban a very effective way to manage productivity. Courage fosters an environment where continual improvement is possible.

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Wrike

AUGUST 25, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Kaizen Burst Kaizen Burst is a lean methodology that focuses on making small, incremental improvements to processes, products, and services. It encourages a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and empowerment, where employees are engaged in identifying and implementing improvements at all levels.

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Resource Guru

JUNE 7, 2023

Styles can be influenced by company culture, project requirements, and even personal preferences. Lean: Streamline processes and optimize resource utilization In project management, the Lean methodology aims to streamline processes, reduce inefficiencies, and optimize resource utilization. But let’s dive a bit deeper into each.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In modern, Agile or Lean organizations, the customers, employees and value delivered, is the most important concern. [3]. Nexus) or other Agile or Lean frameworks, were enacted in an empirical way. In some cases, depending on your position and influence, the only thing you can do is to make all issues transparent. 2] Ibidem. [3]

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The Strategic Project Manager

JULY 25, 2023

Enhance operational efficiency by implementing lean methodologies and reducing waste. Employee Development : Increase employee engagement scores by 10% through employee recognition and development initiatives. Achieve a gross profit margin of 20% by implementing cost-saving initiatives.

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By: Dr. Michael Shick, MSPM, PMP, CSM Have you ever initiated a project with tremendous enthusiasm, only to find the feeling fleeting amidst confusion, misunderstanding, and being overwhelmed? It's where the vision from the project initiation phase is transformed into actionable steps. Gauging their influence.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I worked in a context where the optimizing goal was to free people’s capacity to do “better things” and to free up some cash so that the organization wouldn’t have to go to the money markets to invest in innovation. That’s where the context was, no appetite for innovation other than innovation for problem-solving. impediments,

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Planio

MAY 18, 2021

Agile planning is a process for reconciling your long-term product vision with the inevitable near-term iterations that will influence its development. Set your quarterly OKRs (or, “initiatives”) based on the customer behaviors you think you’ll see. Start by focusing on outcomes, not outputs. Group first-level outcomes into “themes”.

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Scrum.org

JULY 16, 2019

Three initiatives. To help shift this focus on silver bullets to implement Scrum, classes full of best practices, maturity models, and unrealistic expectations of/by Scrum coaches, we (The Liberators) are involved in three initiatives: The design and maintenance of the Scrum.org PSM II class. The Professional Scrum Master II class. “We

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Leading Answers

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Qualities like magnetism and charisma became important and self-help books had titles like “ How to Win Friends and Influence People ”. Books like “ The Lean Startup ” and “ Blue Ocean Strategy ” have become the new how-to guides for people wanting to innovate. It means we are wasteful innovators.

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The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 8, 2022

This will influence their approach to projects. The focus of projects – and the whole company – may initially be one project. This means following a lean innovation process in search of the right offering to serve the chosen customer segment. Startup – A startup will focus on just one Customer Segment.

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The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 14, 2022

Hence, there are two types of channels: communication and distribution: Communication Channels – These are the means of getting the messages out to potential customers and influencers. Maintaining flexibility with a lean or agile innovation approach is probably best.

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The Strategic Project Manager

APRIL 30, 2022

Engage with key influencers – Be strategic about this. In what areas do you need influence, with whom do you need to engage, and what is in it for them? You will need a strategy for getting the Change to take root with these influencers and disseminate to others. The communications alone is a project unto itself.

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Teamweek

MARCH 4, 2020

Having a family or a hobby or a robust volunteering schedule in addition to our over-40-hour work weeks shows that we’ve “leaned in.” And if you’re a manager or anyone with influence at your company, you can go further, by enabling and modeling healthy work behavior. It garners respect. Focus only on what really needs to be done.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The prioritization process ranks the various elements within a company’s strategic or funding initiatives and the organizational focus (i.e., Comprehensive integrated planning with critical path method (CPM) and lean scheduling. Top Features: Visualize the portfolio workload with waterfall, collaborative, or Lean-Agile views.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Cultural Emphasis on Technical Excellence Over Customer Value : Organizations that place a higher emphasis on technical excellence or innovation for its own sake, rather than focusing on delivering customer value, may inadvertently encourage gold-plating. What would you do to initiate change?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Inventor, engineer and head of research at General Motors for decades, Kettering was responsible for innovations such as the electrical starting motor and leaded gasoline. Lean In author and Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg has a little bit of experience as a leader. He’s a bit long-winded here, but he wasn’t a writer. Dolly Parton.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

And so objectives can be innovation. If I throw that word in there and I think about our world, I assume some of our objectives in K o work would go to a Basecamp five innovation team. The initial work to get these things established is high, right? Here’s what we have to influence. But it’s a new thing.

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The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Let’s analyze how each statement in the creed may influence a business’s strategy: Continuous Learning – The business should prioritize ongoing education and skill development. It should lean in on investments in employee training and development programs, and foster a culture of innovation and adaptability.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2023

Originating from lean manufacturing principles, VSM's relevance has expanded, becoming a cornerstone in fields such as software development. Evolve everyone who touches the product or influences product delivery in any way. The initial mapping session was a revelation for the team.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Some lean practitioners dispute its existence is justified.). ???? September 27, 2022 : Join 200-plus peers at the 45th Hands-on Agile Meetup: FAST: An Innovative Way to Scale with James Shore. The Product Owner may influence the Developers by helping them understand and select trade-offs. Product Backlogs do not scale.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tad Haas’ How Innovation & Portfolio Management Office Underpins Corporate Success webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Tad: The conversation today is built off a white paper called Innovation and Portfolio Management Office.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. The Product Owner owns the “why” and influences the “what” and “who,” but never the “how.” Do you want to get this article in your inbox? You can sign up here and join 28k other subscribers.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

But over the years, project managers have learned to follow a strict project lifecycle, which helps them manage every step of the journey, from establishing initial goals to handover and closing. Here’s a breakdown of the typical project lifecycle and what project managers do at each stage: Initiation: Every project needs a “why.”

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

And then tying that together into a network and then applying Lean principles to designing an organization that can get stuff done. So, also about the time that you and I met you were doing some work with PMI and the OPM three initiative? – Okay, cool. – Yeah, that’s right. – Yeah. – Right? – Yeah.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

But a lot of that value conversation is some around predictability and return on investment and product fit and innovation and such. Like what does it mean to have like that kind of business agility, the ability to redeploy strategic business capabilities into something totally different. That’s moving through a set of various states.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The primary objective of project initiatives is the produce Value. Supply and Demand have an influence on bringing Cost and Value closer, but that does not make them the same thing. Find an under served buyer and create an innovative product or service. However, many of our models for thinking are based on Cost.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2020

Poppendieck was an influence for me, no doubt, and several others in those days. But sure, it was heavily influenced by Mary Poppendieck. Leffingwell hadn’t done his initial work on scaled Agile. And that’s what I gave you. The Larman and Vodde stuff hadn’t been released. Nothing about scaled Agile.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. To make a complex practice like project management simpler, the most recent version of the PMBOK breaks the core project management processes down into five sections: Initiating : Defining a new project or a new phase of an existing project. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Business agility means having the capability to “turn on a dime” at low cost and with low risk, to drive innovation, respond to market changes, and overcome the competition. They know their solutions are of local scope, but they lack the power or influence to drive a comprehensive solution. Thus: No improvement.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

And this is actually fairly huge because Microsoft just crossed over the $1 trillion mark in terms of revenue assets for the company and Amazon not far behind, also implementing agile in a global perspective to help them really kind of innovate and create a much more competitive of company and organization. And again it is tailorable.

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Resource Guru

AUGUST 10, 2023

While project managers aren’t miracle workers (although pretty darn close), they need to keep a close eye on project scheduling , from project initiation to closure. Not only do they need to put out great content that supports campaigns, but they also need to monitor trends and keep up with influencers. .” – Barry D.,

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Saddest is that given decades of UCD and HCD as our key processes, SAFe picked “Lean UX” to add to their model. Lean UX is neither Lean nor UX; don’t be fooled by the name. But you can see why SAFe liked Lean UX. Lean UX is a model where UX has no real power to do much or make decisions. Better risk identification.

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