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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker Agile is a mindset described by a set of values and principles. The base is Leadership, Systems Thinking, and Process Integrity. Lean is industry-agnostic and offers insight into agility. Leadership Leaders play a critical role and appear at every level in the organization. Toyota was a Lean pioneer.

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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You can earn PDUs (professional development units) for ongoing certification renewal, such as for the Project Management Professional (PMP)®, from reading. Reading is a fast way to earn PDUs but it needs to be relevant to the certification you hold. How many PDUs can you get for reading?

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Everyday Agile Practices

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker Agile seems like a mystery to many. However, when we step back and inspect agile, we see that it follows common, recognizable patterns from our daily lives. Let’s explore how agile practices can be applied to this common predicament. It has an unfamiliar vocabulary and practices. Imagine it is Thursday evening.

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The 2021 Project Management Report

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Agile ) methods together. However, this finding is markedly different to what VersionOne found in their 14 th Annual State of Agile report in 2020. Their research found that only 9% of Agile practitioners were using hybrid methods. The top career goal is certification. Hybrid is the most common delivery approach.

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What Makes Agile Transformations Successful? Results From A Scientific Study

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. What makes Agile transformations successful? The paper presents and tests a model that identifies success factors for Agile transformations. So what does scientific research already tell us about Agile transformations?

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

By Alan Zucker Disciplined Agile® (DA) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) are two popular, second-generation agile methodologies. They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Simple Rules for High-Performing Agile Teams

International Institute for Learning

Servant leadership and self-organizing teams are foundational Agile characteristics. Formal Definitions of Agile Teams. A cross-functional team in which people fluidly assume leadership as needed to achieve the team’s objectives. Servant Leadership. Disciplined Agile favors semi-autonomous, self-organizing teams.

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