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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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Servant Leadership in PMO Management: A Path to Success

The IIL Blog

However, the traditional hierarchical management approach is evolving, giving rise to the concept of servant leadership within PMOs. Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy where the leader’s primary focus is on serving and empowering team members within the PMO. Servant Leadership Approach. Tangible Benefits.

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What I’m Reading: July 2016

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams is a very hands-on book for working successfully virtually, whether you use collaboration tools, conference calls or email. What I’m Reading: January 2016 Find out what I've been reading over the last month or so. This is what I.

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Entlassungswelle bei Agile Coaches: So nutzt du als Scrum Master diesen beunruhigenden Trend zu deinem Vorteil

Scrum.org

Capital One schrieb : „Die agile Rolle in unserer Tech-Organisation war für unsere früheren Transformationsphasen von entscheidender Bedeutung, aber mit zunehmender Reife unserer Organisation ist der natürliche nächste Schritt die Integration agiler Lieferprozesse direkt in den Kern unserer Entwicklungspraktiken.“ Was meine ich damit?

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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 Project Manager’s Agile Transformation Journey

The IIL Blog

Insights from Bosch By Johannes Köber Agility, dynamic, and flexibility are trendsetting words, with good reason. These challenges impact project management practices and project managers, spurring much-cited Agile Transformation. billion euros and is already implementing agile transformation in many units.

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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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