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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

At regular intervals, teams review their performance and identify ways to improve. Use the promo code: Alan20. In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile. Kaizen is Japanese for “small change for good” and embodies this principle.

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Online Training: OnlinePMCourses Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you want to align it to the PMI certification structure, in my opinion this looks like the best complementary course to take in parallel with your CAPM® studies. You'll also like: Online Training: BrainBOK Review My review of the project management online training course BrainBOK. Software Review: iMindQ 4.1

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Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

Visual cues such as color-coding and swim lanes can be used to organize the milestones and deliverables by the owner, workstream, product, etc. Due dates, owners, and other information can also be included. Task cards can be color coded to identify assignments or deliverables. Lines can be added to portray interdependencies.

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The 2021 Project Management Report

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The top career goal is certification. The top career goal for project managers is gaining a certification. Perhaps that’s why so many people want to take their development into their own hands, earn a certification and get a new job. As we’ve seen, the top goal for project managers is certification.

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Project Management software

Binfire

The market for project management software is rapidly expanding. It seems “work management software” is a better name than project management software for some of these applications. Why do we need project management software? Such software should enable diverse groups to work on a common goal and vision.

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5 Whys to Explore Scrum with an independent Scrum Caretaker

Gunther Verheyen

From 2013-2016 I maintained the official “Professional Scrum” series of Scrum.org meanwhile training candidate-PSTs and shepherding the global community of Professional Scrum Trainers and coaches. After ending the exclusivity of Scrum.org over my work in 2016, I had to think about a new title. It’s fine to not just take my word for it.

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What Makes Agile Transformations Successful? Results From A Scientific Study

Scrum.org

In this post, I summarize the findings from an academic peer-reviewed publication by Daniel Russo (2021), a professor at the University of Aalborg. Kim Dikert and his colleagues reviewed 52 prior scientific studies in 2016 to identify common challenges and success factors for Agile transformations.

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