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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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5 Reasons Why You Should Get a SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC)?

Agilemania

Since its release in 2016, the number of people getting SAFe® SPC Certified has been increasing each year. There are around 18,193 people who have received SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC) credentials since certification began in 2016. The SAFe® Program Consultant certification is a great way to enhance your expertise in SAFe®.

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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. Advanced certifications are available for Program Consultants , Trainers , and Portfolio Managers.

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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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5 Steps to Finding the Path to Business Agility

International Institute for Learning

When used alongside knowledgeable industry guides or Tactec coaches, these patterns result in what we call lean agile acceleration. We must walk the path to lean agility. At Tactec, we use a lean change approach to implement a program of minimum viable change. However, knowing the path is not enough.

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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 also holds multiple Agile certifications from Disciplined Agile, Scrum Alliance, and Scaled Agile.