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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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Remote Lean Coffee

Growing Agile

This morning we hosted a Lean Coffee session. It was my first time hosting a virtual lean coffee. My first experience of a lean coffee was with Karen and Sam many years ago, I really enjoyed the loose structure and got so much of value that it soon became one of my favourite facilitation techniques.

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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. Jeff has been a member of the PMI Global Executive Council since 2014.

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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 post Top Project Management Conferences to Attend in 2016 appeared first on Blog Wrike. Agile and Beyond.

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Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

This is an iterative process where high-level needs are initially elaborated, and more detailed requirements are defined later. Step 1b: Define Scope After initial requirements have been collected, the next step is to define the scope—what will be delivered by the team. Listing the in- versus out-of-scope items creates clarity.

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Fika Stories 1 – Help! Our Kanban Died!

Digite

In this 2-part series, we are honored to publish a couple of blog posts by (2016 Brickell Key award winner) Christophe Achouiantz, Kanban thought-leader, consultant and coach. Look at Jason Little and his excellent Lean Change Management for guidance. Written in the “Fika-style” (read on to understand what that is!), Now, Good luck!

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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. However, their challenge might be simply the lack of management bandwidth to take on an enterprise-wide initiative.

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