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The Project Manager’s Agile Transformation Journey

The IIL Blog

My Keynote Presentation is about the development of project management and project managers in the Bosch Group. I will focus on two selectively chosen business units that have already gone through the agile transformation: ETAS (Bosch’s Software Development Subsidiary) and Bosch Power Tools. They have a sales revenue of 5.9

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). ” Software Development 9(8): 28-32. Agile Software Development with Scrum.

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Busy, But Not Productive

International Institute for Learning

Kanban is a flow-based management practice initially developed to reduce inventory and manufacturing costs. These practices are now widely used to visualize and manage work in industries as diverse as software development, operations support, and non-profit management. Alan is a frequent keynote speaker and thought leader.

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5 Steps to Finding the Path to Business Agility

International Institute for Learning

We can use many patterns that have been identified and verified as good practices across many industries, including construction, government, telecommunications, travel, finance software development, and so on. An author, consultant, instructor and agile architect, he gets to do all of these at Tactec.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

Herding Cats

But before going further, let's establish the definitions we need to understand and apply Root Cause Analysis needed to discover the corrective and preventive actions to increase the probability of project success - especially Software Project Success. A Correction fixed the immediate non-conformance. All for the want of a nail.

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Interview: Authors of A Guide to Distributed Agile Framework

Stepping Into Project Management

John: We met on-line through shared interests, and at the Agile Singapore 2016 Conference. Ensure there are truly Agile leadership virtues like servant leadership, empowering teams, and a growth (Agile) mindset in the organization. Today we are interviewing the authors of the book: John Okoro, Savita Pahuja and Hugo messer.

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43 Learning Resources for New and Experienced Project Managers

LiquidPlanner

While Abeid hasn’t released a new podcast since 2016, the archives are still worth exploring. Her strength is writing about careers, leadership, and teams within the PM space. If you work in the software and product development space, you should bookmark this blog. Age of Product. Harvard Business Review. Herding Cats.