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Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching

Scrum.org

Small changes can produce big results—but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006). Over time, the capabilities for the fundamental solution may atrophy or become disabled, leading to an even greater reliance on the symptomatic solution (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006).

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

Prioritizing based on business value is an example of the lean concept of 'Taking an Economic View of Decision Making.' I wrote about these ideas when I started blogging in 2006 as  Risk Profile Graphs. Taking an Economic View of Decision Making. Taking an economic view of decision making has a couple of advantages.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

Morgan (2006) explores the roots of this mechanical perspective?—?or In the following century, it would give rise to modern-day practices like lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Gantt-charts. Morgan (2006) draws attention to its deeply reductionist nature. or the “machine metaphor”?—?and Who likes whom, and who doesn’t?

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves , Daniel Galaorath and Michael Evans , Auerbach, 2006. Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006. Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Prentice Hall, 2000.

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Route to Enterprise Scale Agility

Digite

I caught up with Kanban pioneer David Anderson on the sidelines of Lean Kanban Central Europe and Lean Kanban India last year and asked him about his thoughts. While Scrum is probably most prevalent in IT, Kanban and Lean are significant too. It was replicated at Robert Bosch’s South Bend, Indiana facility in 2006.

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How to Measure Success? Is it Even Possible?

Scrum.org

It looks like small cognitively-diverse (Syed, 2019) cross-skilled cross-functional teams or teams-of-teams using Agile, Lean, Lean/Agile methods, or the Agile Manifesto principles. It looks like small cross-skilled cross-functional teams or teams-of-teams using Agile, Lean, Lean/Agile methods, or the Agile Manifesto principles.

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Project Portfolio Management Works for More Than Just IT

Meisterplan

In 2006, Anand Sanwal, CEO of CB Insights, and former VP of American Express, said, “I remain amazed at how the entire portfolio management discipline has become largely focused on enabling corporate portfolio management for IT investments. You can find a lot more information about Lean PPM on our blog and project portfolio management page.

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