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Discovering the Diverse Sources Behind Innovation

Scrum.org

It’s not just limited to inventing something entirely new; innovation can also involve improving or significantly contributing to existing products, services, processes, or ways of thinking. Executives & Senior Leadership In many organisations executives and senior leadership serve as catalysts for creativity.

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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

2014), and Jugdev et al., 2014) Project management and burnout: Implications of the Demand-Control-Support model on project-based work, International Journal of Project Management. PMs must recognize the signs of stress and burnout as early as possible in the project’s life cycle. Journal of Product Innovation Management.

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Add to the C-Level

The Lazy Project Manager

A Chief Projects Officer (CPO) is typically responsible for providing governance over an organisation’s internal projects – external, or customer facing projects can be also covered but that is entering a slightly different world – with a focus on: Ensuring all projects support the current strategic objectives.

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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”. hours, Published 2014 by Blue Hole Press). 290 pages, Published 8 May 2014 by Celeritas Publishing). Kanban from the Inside. By Mike Burrows.

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Organizational Structures that Support Faster Innovation and Evolution

Leading Answers

Small organizations can change direction quickly because they have fewer people or processes to change. Think of a thousand people all moving toward a common goal—and their organizational structures and processes to get there. Examples include government agencies and charter schools. Examples include Southwest Airlines, and W.L.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

Herding Cats

Root Cause is the fundamental initiating cause on a causal chain leading to a failure of a process which results in a recurrence of the problem. Root Cause Analysis is a systematic documented approach to arrive at the true Root Cause of the process problem. 02202, The Aerospace Corporation, 30 May 2014. 02163, May 8, 2014.

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Scheduling and Cost Control in a Complex Environment

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

And of course, for our projects and our organisations, we don’t have Governments to bail us out. We need to understand when we are in a complex environment, apply the right form of leadership and choose the right tools. There is also a big ‘but’ in terms of availability bias: we tend to forget all the failed or unused initiatives.