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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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Servant Leadership in PMO Management: A Path to Success

The IIL Blog

However, the traditional hierarchical management approach is evolving, giving rise to the concept of servant leadership within PMOs. Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy where the leader’s primary focus is on serving and empowering team members within the PMO. Servant Leadership Approach.

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Leadership : ethical, authentic leadership is what helps get work done and set you apart from your peers. Successful project managers will be those that embrace the mantle of leadership. Throughout the project, leadership is simple: you serve your team. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) Let’s jump in.

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Small business tips for managing projects with a lean team

LiquidPlanner

You don’t need a formal project management office (PMO) to understand your resource capacity. Lean teams must collaborate well and trust each other. I engaged the team, managed work according to our capacity, limited work to what we could reasonably deliver and earned the trust of leadership and the team.

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Does your PMO hinder or help your agile transformation?

Kiron Bondale

So what can a PMO do to actively support an agile transformation? Examining their own operational processes and leaning them out as much as possible. Obsessing over vanity metrics such as velocity or time to market rather than business value delivered or shipped features utilized. Failing to inspect and adapt.

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How to Develop Your Personal Project Management Philosophy

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, you’ll learn how to develop a leadership philosophy for your projects and what skills are useful to underpin your chosen ways of working. How do you develop a personal leadership philosophy? Your personal leadership philosophy can be the difference between success and failure on a project. Here are four tips.

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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. Didn’t we just say that a centralized PMO undermined LPM?

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