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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. PMI Sweden Passion of Projects: Gothenburg, Sweden 12-13 March 2018.

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Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

It embraces iterative planning, uses milestones to establish a project roadmap, a Kanban board to manage the work, and stand-up meetings to track progress. Milestone-Kanban bridges these practices to create a robust, lightweight, and flexible framework for planning many types of projects and managing their performance.

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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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5 Steps to Finding the Path to Business Agility

International Institute for Learning

The Kaizen loop is one of several improvement processes we use to plan, do, study and act our way to continuous improvement. Using PMI’s Agile tool kit, we can quickly view a potential experiment saving a colossal time and expense. We must walk the path to lean agility. However, knowing the path is not enough.

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Improve Your Project Schedule

International Institute for Learning

Even with these powerful tools, only about half of all projects are completed on time, as reported in the PMI Pulse of the Profession.® To improve, we need to understand the tools and their limitations, set clear expectations, and improve our practices by planning at the “right” level of detail and removing complexity.

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Project Success: Implementation AND Adoption

The IIL Blog

Assume Failure and Plan for Success Both project and organizational change management efforts have dismal records, with roughly only one-third being successful. So, we should assume failure and proactively plan for success. Things will not go according to plan. So, what can project managers do to improve adoption?

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Busy, But Not Productive

International Institute for Learning

We simply need to start judiciously applying the principles of lean-agile management. The foundational practices of Lean, Kanban, Scrum, and SAFe (Scale Agile Framework) were designed to create the space for us to focus on “real work.”. Alan Zucker, PMP, PMI-ACP. Create Value and Measure Progress. Founding Principal.