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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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Lean Startup and Scrum

Scrum.org

I remember the first time I heard about Lean Startup. A member of the audience asked, “What do you think about Lean Startup?”. Honestly, I had not heard of Lean Startup. After the conference, I bought Eric Ries’s book - Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses.

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Product Discovery for Scrum Teams

Scrum.org

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Learn more : Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz: “Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days,” 2016. Lean UX integrates well with Scrum, emphasizing collaboration, delivering value early and often, and gathering customer feedback.

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Servant Leadership in PMO Management: A Path to Success

The IIL Blog

We’ve taken many different and evolving approaches to driving lean into our processes. Our team leans into this philosophy, strives to innovate, and reduce waste, while delivering more value to business partners of the PMO team. At Caterpillar, we’ve been on a continuous improvement journey in the PMO for more than ten years.

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The Project Manager’s Agile Transformation Journey

The IIL Blog

They started in 2016 with the first Business Unit Home & Garden and finished in 2019 with the transformation of all 6 Business Units. While ETAS leaned towards SAFe®, Bosch Power Tools created their own agile approach strictly oriented to their business needs. They have a sales revenue of 5.9

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2018 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want To Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, 2018 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want To Miss , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. Use this quick link menu below (on the main full article page) to jump to the relevant portion of the year. RICS Project Leadership Conference: London, UK, 21 February 2018.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. Each has a “big picture” (see: DA , SAFe ) describing its components with links to detailed knowledge articles. Full SAFe extends the framework to Large Solutions that require coordinating many ARTs and implementing Lean Portfolio Management.

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