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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

ProjectManager.com

The kanban board is broken down into columns that represent the different stages of a process, and the kanban cards are individual tasks that move from one column to the next as they move through the process. This created less waste and increased the efficiency of processes. When one bin is empty, the next bin refills it.

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Episode 185 – Redefining Project Success through Sustainable Project Management

Velociteach

Projects are instrumental in defining an organization’s vision for a more sustainable future. Dr. Joel Carboni talks about Sustainable Project Management, and the goal to achieve a stated objective while considering the project outcome’s entire lifecycle to ensure a net positive environmental, social, and economic impact.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Because PRINCE2® is a broad-brush approach, it doesn’t cover technical processes or specific techniques, but it will fit alongside them. PRINCE2® was released in 1996 and had major updates in 2009 and 2017. There’s a process to guide work through the stages so there is adequate control at every point. It was renamed PRINCE.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The name is apt, as the waterfall methodology is a process in which the phases of the project flow downward. When implementing the agile methodology , project planning and work management are adaptive, evolutionary in development, seeking early delivery and are always open to change if that leads to process improvement.

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

Some find the process of creating them “childish” or “a waste of time”. It has been linked to higher performance and motivation (Mathieu et al, 2000), increased effectiveness (Kearny, Gebert & Voelpel, 2009), and generally explains a substantial amount of the variance (~19%) in the effectiveness of teams (De Church & Mesmer-Magnus, 2010).

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How I ended up becoming a (Professional) Scrum trainer

Gunther Verheyen

Ken had founded this new organization a year earlier, in October 2009. I had been closely following up on the emergence and growth of Scrum.org as it coincided with a personal process of professional recovery. I experienced it as an expression of “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”. It intrigued me.

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What Is a Business Model Innovation Capability?

The Strategic Project Manager

This ensures relevance to the customer, and sustainability as an ongoing enterprise. Organization – What kind of organizational configuration will help build and sustain competitive advantage ? Business Model Innovation is parallel to the idea of product and service innovation, especially the process of lean innovation.