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Beyond Agile Gratitude #2 - Lean Thinking and the Kanban Method

Leading Answers

Now that my Beyond Agile book has been published, I would like to thank people who helped shape its content and ideas. The Kanban Method can teach agile practitioners many useful ideas about incremental improvement, successful organizational change, and improved team performance. Ask How can we meet and exceed customer goals?

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The Illusion of Velocity

Scrum.org

TL; DR: The Illusion of Velocity In this article, I explore the pitfalls of ‘The Illusion of Velocity’ in agile contexts, peeling back the layers of traditional metrics as leadership tools. Contrastingly, agile practices, born from the need to accomplish work in uncertain and complex environments, emphasize adaptability and responsiveness.

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM The quest for methodologies that offer efficiency and agility has never been rockier. Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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How I ended up becoming a (Professional) Scrum trainer

Gunther Verheyen

In April 2010, at an event of the Agile Consortium Belgium in Brussels, I asked Jeff Sutherland about this new organization founded by his former companion. I painfully discovered that I had been blinded by management ambitions (and promises) in 2007-2008. It wasn’t too sustainable (I guess). Go full throttle.

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The Human Experience in the Digital Age

The IIL Blog

BRM orchestrates the formation, sustainability, and expansion of synergistic human networks, in sync with the strategic shaping of the ecosystem. Without 7 trust and common purpose, organizational siloes continue to hinder collaboration, in turn having a negative impact on velocity, agility, efficiency, and resilience. Stanton, Steven.

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How To Accelerate Innovation With the NPD Process

Wrike

Jeff Kinney’s hit children’s book series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid , was first released in 2007 and is still rolling out installments each year. Adopt Agile methodologies Agile methodologies, widely used in software development, can be applied to the NPD process to shorten development cycles and boost team collaboration.

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Project Innovation and “Crossing the Chasm”

Tony Adams

Shenhar and Dvir (2007) pose an interesting argument about innovation in a project management context. This idea says that companies that rely on sustaining innovation often build their products and deliver changes at a pace that customers come to expect. Platform opportunities – changes required to maintain the business.