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Six Sigma: A Simple Guide for Project Managers

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Test those solutions, and figure out what risks are inherent. Lean focuses on eliminating eight areas of waste: defects, overproduction, waiting, non-utilized talent, transportation, inventory, motion and extra-processing. It also doesn’t fit well with work that is oriented towards finding innovative new methods and processes.

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Is Software Development Art or Engineering

Herding Cats

Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. This domain has turned into the S oftware Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) paradigm that dominates software development activities today. Software-intensive systems include: .

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Achieving Operational Agility in a Rapidly Evolving Marketplace

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It involves having flexible processes, systems, and structures in place that allow for easy adaptation and innovation. Operational agility enables businesses to seize opportunities, mitigate risks, and maintain a competitive edge in a rapidly evolving marketplace. Operational agility also plays a significant role in risk management.

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Product Management Considerations for Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

Dive into the complementary roles of product managers and project managers and explore how their collaboration can lead to desired outcomes by overcoming common challenges, making strategic decisions, and driving product innovation forward. Product teams can utilize a product roadmap showing iterations or incremental changes to the product.

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Where Did All the Project Managers Go?

Leading Answers

Software is becoming omnipresent, it is embedded and integral to all industries. Not just technology companies (like Google, Apple) but every sector is being disrupted by software including retail (Amazon), banking (PayPal, cryptocurrencies), transportation (Tesla, Uber), and travel (Airbnb).   New Tools and Approaches.

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What is Bimodal IT and How Does it Work?

Wrike

It can also be used in traditional organizations, for example, a transportation company using two forms of carriers, such as air and rail. In bimodal IT, mode 1 focuses on predictability and work that maintains the status quo, while mode 2 focuses on exploration, innovation, and continuous improvement of the organization’s systems.

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Exploring Lean Manufacturing: Principles and Benefits

Wrike

Pursue Perfection: Continuously strive to improve processes, eliminating waste and driving innovation. The TPS focused on eliminating seven types of waste: overproduction, waiting, transportation, overprocessing, excess inventory, unnecessary motion, and defects.