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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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2018 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want To Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Many conferences have early bird pricing so it is worth checking out the events that interest you as soon as you can in case you need to get corporate funding to attend. Make sure you sign up for the free Attend a Conference Checklist before you go to any of these events. We’ve come a long way since Henry Gantt.

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Top Project Management Conferences to Attend in 2016

Wrike

2016 is brand new, and now that you’ve started a fresh calendar, you’re probably eager to find exciting events to fill it with. Look no further than our list of top project management conferences for 2016. The event, hosted by Boston University, also features notable keynote speakers and hands-on workshops.

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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. Synchronization is achieved through a quarterly 2-day, “big-room planning” event.

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Essential SAFe 4.0 – How is it Different from SAFe 4.0?

Digite

in 2016 as a method to help organizations scale up their existing agile practices. Lean-Agile Mindset. The biggest challenge that a large organization faces is an absence of a Lean-Agile mindset. is to train the top management and change leaders in Lean-Agile and SAFe principles. Essential SAFe 4.0 in its entirety.

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Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

Step 2: Create a Roadmap Traditional project schedules use milestones to mark the planned completion of a significant project event. Step 3: Build the Kanban Board Kanban is a lean inventory management tool originally developed by Toyota and broadly adopted by most agile teams. Kanban allows teams to visualize work.

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Project Success: Implementation AND Adoption

The IIL Blog

External events will impact the project’s execution, including leadership and key-resource changes, market competition, and other operational changes. In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile. Things will not go according to plan.