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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. They define the culture, vision, and strategies. A primary leadership role in establishing the organization’s vision and strategy. Toyota was a Lean pioneer. There is diversity.

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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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Managing Virtual Teams: Strategies for Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

However, navigating the intricacies of virtual collaboration requires a unique set of strategies and approaches to ensure seamless communication, productivity, and alignment among all the team members. By implementing these strategies, you can empower your team members to thrive and deliver value to your organization.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

What is the business case for Agile teams? We think we do well to base our beliefs about Agile more on evidence. This post is our attempt to bring an evidence-based perspective to the business case of Agile teams. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams.

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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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Asana vs. ClickUp: In-Depth Comparison

ProjectManager.com

Strategic planning: Managers can use the tool to plan their long-term strategies and goals. Agile management: For teams that work in an agile environment, they can track progress on tasks, plan sprints and integrate with third-party apps. It is used for work management, from campaign planning to agile workflows.

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Lean Startup and Scrum

Scrum.org

I was an analyst for Forrester research on a panel at the Agile conference in Orlando. The idea is that Agile could be combined with an approach to effectively, incrementally validate and deliver a terrific business. In 2016, Gartner created a diagram that showed how Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Scrum combined.

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