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Book review: Critical Chain

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Goldratt, who died in 2011 , has created a world where the characters are well-rounded. Critical chain is a way to streamline processes so that you avoid bottlenecks and increase throughput. Business novels and stories that I have read in the past, like John Kotter’s Our Iceberg is Melting , have been contrived. What is critical chain?

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Can IBM’s Watson Improve your Organization’s Lessons Learned Process?

The IIL Blog

champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on the game show back in 2011. In fact, it would be interesting if, let’s say IBM itself, a sophisticated global organization with a strong and mature project management process, used Watson for its own project management lessons learned repository. I think so.

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The Project Manager’s Agile Transformation Journey

The IIL Blog

The business unit ETAS is a leading provider of engineering solutions and consulting services for the development of embedded systems. Their agile journey started in 2011 with Scrum. process optimization as well as with Mercedes-Benz in the field of supply change management. Johannes is an B.Sc.

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How I ended up becoming a (Professional) Scrum trainer

Gunther Verheyen

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”. In April 2011, Ken came to Brussels for an event I co-organized for the Agile Consortium Belgium.

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The Power of Asking “What If…”

Bridge the Gap Consulting

In 2011 I was overweight, suffered from high blood pressure, and was told that diabetes was likely in later years if I didn’t make changes now. Eventually, I asked if I should be a consultant, and did that too. Processing… Success! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Two reasons.

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Agilemania 2.0: How We Became the Scaled Agile Gold Partner?

Agilemania

The year 2011 saw the Arab Springs and that sent shock waves throughout the world. SAFe Program Consultant (SPC). Our SPCs have extensive experience in consulting organizations. What started as a side hustle is now the most trusted vendor for Agile consulting, Advisory, and Training services in South and South-East Asia.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

DA was developed in 2011 by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines and is based on Scott’s work at Rational Software and IBM. DA defines “process blades” to describe common enterprise capabilities. Disciplined DevOps is the set of process blades enabling the continuous delivery of working software.

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