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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. Lean is industry-agnostic and offers insight into agility. Transparency Transparency is a core Lean-Agile principle. Agile teams use information radiators to produce radical visibility into backlogs, risks, and status through Kanban boards.

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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Our risks were identified, but a response strategy was never created.

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Asana vs. ClickUp: In-Depth Comparison

ProjectManager.com

Agile management: For teams that work in an agile environment, they can track progress on tasks, plan sprints and integrate with third-party apps. ClickUp was founded in 2016 by Zeb Evans and Alex Yurkowski and is headquartered in San Diego, California. It is used for work management, from campaign planning to agile workflows.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

This family of methods are now commonly known as Agile , and it has been through the formation of the Agile Alliance and the publication of the Agile Manifesto (Fowler and Highsmith 2001). The success of such “new” methods relies on the fact that Shifting Customer needs are common in today´s marketplace (Graffius, 2016).

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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Retrospective Antipatterns is a great book for those in agile project management – especially if you’ve read all the classics. Identifying and Managing Project Risk (4 th Ed) Author: Tom Kendrick. Identifying and Managing Project Risk is a big read at over 300 pages. PDU claim: 2 hours. PDU claim: 5 hours.

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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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Product Discovery for Scrum Teams

Scrum.org

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 48,000-plus subscribers. ? ? ?? This omission aligns with the Agile Manifesto’s principles that value “individuals and interactions over processes and tools” and “customer collaboration over contract negotiation.”

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