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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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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. Browse IIL’s Leadership and Interpersonal Skills Courses here!

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How to shrink your project with the Minimum Viable Product: 5 Tips for Minimum Viable Projects

Inloox

According to the lean startup principle "Build - Measure - Learn", the product is further developed iteratively. Of course, agile project management methods are very well suited for this, but MVP can also be implemented in classic time planning. This is why most large companies cannot be transformed into a lean start-up.

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2018 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want To Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This year’s RICS project management conference has the theme ‘Remaining Lean and Agile in a Changing Work Environment’ I’m not sure if they are partnering with the APM as in previous years but the agenda is already up on the site and looks interesting. I'd like to receive the free email course. Please try again.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. Full SAFe extends the framework to Large Solutions that require coordinating many ARTs and implementing Lean Portfolio Management. Implementing SAFe begins with training the change agents and executives in the lean-agile mindset and SAFe practices.

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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.