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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

It traces its roots to Lean, which is also foundational to other modern management theories. Lean’s primary focus is delivering value quickly and eliminating waste. Toyota was a Lean pioneer. Lean is a set of principles. The “House of Lean” is often used as a metaphor. Value Value is the roof of our House of Lean.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. Since I hold advanced certifications in both frameworks and regularly teach agile classes, I have a unique perspective and appreciate what they offer. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto. Interestingly, Dean also worked at Rational.

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Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

Step 3: Build the Kanban Board Kanban is a lean inventory management tool originally developed by Toyota and broadly adopted by most agile teams. In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile. Kanban allows teams to visualize work.

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Project Success: Implementation AND Adoption

The IIL Blog

This will provide compelling and more thoughtful elicitation of what is needed Actively engaging users during the design phase to provide feedback on the screen design, process flow, and business rules Hold regular demonstrations of working software components to users to collect feedback Create Flow Lean practices focus on the flow of work.

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Improve Your Project Schedule

International Institute for Learning

Lean-Agile teams often use Kanban to prioritize, organize, and manage work. In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile. He authors monthly articles, regularly quoted in the industry press, and is a podcast guest.

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Busy, But Not Productive

International Institute for Learning

We simply need to start judiciously applying the principles of lean-agile management. The foundational practices of Lean, Kanban, Scrum, and SAFe (Scale Agile Framework) were designed to create the space for us to focus on “real work.”. I can write the first draft of an article in 2-hours—it, then, takes another 10-hours to edit.

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How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. It can serve as a baseline, but most project managers ought to layer some sort of agile certification on top of it. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) I’m sure you do. But what does it take to get there?

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