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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

Digite

Several good books have been written on Kanban and its application to various business processes, especially to Scrum, since David Anderson published his original Kanban “blue book”. Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business. 262 pages, ET to read: 4 hours, Published April 7th, 2010 by Blue Hole Press).

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The PMP: Worth It Or Not?

Bridge the Gap Consulting

I hope someone from the Project Management Institute (PMI) read that and wondered how they got their application approved without an audit. When I got my PMP in 2010, project management was my career passion (I’d already been doing it for 10 years) and looked at certification as a cost of doing business. PMI’s Agile?

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Can the Words “Innovation” and “Project Management” Be Used In The Same Sentence?

The IIL Blog

Innovation management , in its purest form, is a combination of the management of innovation processes and change management. It refers to products, services, business processes, and accompanying transformational needs, whereby the organization must change the way they conduct their business. de, & Meyer, R.

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Agile Unplugged EP04 | Mike Cottmeyer and Matt Van Vleet

Leading Agile

So we first worked together, I guess it was probably back in like late 2009, 2010. And so what we started to think about, or what I started to think about is if we were going to become a full service change management transformation company, we had to have the methodology for change, right? – Right.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Most Popular Agile Tools and Processes: Scrum – 43%. Project Management Industry Growth. Between 2010 and 2020, 15.7 million new project management roles will be created globally, and the project management industry is slated to grow by $6.61 Estimated Project-Oriented Job Openings 2010-2020: . trillion. [11].

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

– So, it took what we had understood about architecture and enterprise architecture and good design principles, and applied it to good program management disciplines that folks like you also brought to the table. I just don’t see as much of their work as I do the guys that are doing Scrum and LeSS and SAFe and things like that.

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 1 – Understanding & Incorporating Agile Project Management

MPUG

But you’ve probably seen this in your career where you have people jumping around going, “Oh, hey, here’s the next silver bullet,” or, “We are going to turn into a scrum or an agile shop.” It’s okay for those things to change. You define your roles and responsibilities.

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