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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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Product Discovery for Scrum Teams

Scrum.org

Why the Scrum Guide Lacks Product Discovery as a Concept The Scrum Guide 2020 emphasizes the role of the Product Owner in managing the Product Backlog but does not define the product discovery process. Design Thinking is a good fit when the problem is complex or ill-defined, requiring innovative and user-centric solutions.

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Servant Leadership in PMO Management: A Path to Success

The IIL Blog

Well-defined and standardized processes are the backbone of effective project management. 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.

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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. Where lean-startups are ahead of larger enterprises Can this lean startup concept also help large companies to implement important projects faster and more efficiently? Author: Dr. Andreas Tremel

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Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

The underlying assumption that the work is well-defined, and the required effort can be easily estimated is a shortcoming of these approaches. Defining the scope and deliverables establishes specific and measurable performance expectations. Defining quality expectations through a definition of done decreases rework.

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Business Process Improvement: What it is and How to Implement it

nTask

According to surveys conducted, as of 2016, 66% of enterprises run a business process improvement program occasionally or never. DMADV follows these steps: Define : you need to define the process goal, while also keeping in line with the company’s overall strategy and your customer’s needs. Lean Manufacturing and Lean Thinking.

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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. DA defines “process blades” to describe common enterprise capabilities.

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