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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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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. Jeff has been a member of the PMI Global Executive Council since 2014.

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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. PMI Sweden Passion of Projects: Gothenburg, Sweden 12-13 March 2018.

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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. Alan Zucker, PMP, PMI-ACP Founding Principal Project Management Essentials Alan Zucker has over 25 years of experience leading projects and project management organizations in Fortune 100 companies.

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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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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

Even with these powerful tools, only about half of all projects are completed on time, as reported in the PMI Pulse of the Profession.® Lean-Agile teams often use Kanban to prioritize, organize, and manage work. He authors monthly articles, regularly quoted in the industry press, and is a podcast guest.