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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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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. They prioritize user-friendly tools and workflows that enhance productivity and collaboration.

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Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

Teams use easily accessible visual reporting tools and update their status daily, which promotes transparency. Requirements can be memorialized in a document, spreadsheet, post-it notes, or an application lifecycle management (ALM) tool. Kanban is a very flexible tool and can be customized to fit the project’s specific needs.

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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. These in-depth seminars hosted by PMI help both novice and experienced project managers advance their careers.

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5 Steps to Finding the Path to Business Agility

International Institute for Learning

When anyone tries to sell a tool or a prescribed method that claims to be “one size fits all” or “immutable” — these can be red flags that whatever they are “selling” is probably not going to be the right fit for you. Using PMI’s Agile tool kit, we can quickly view a potential experiment saving a colossal time and expense.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They offer practitioners tools to extend and mature their agility beyond the team to programs and the broader enterprise. Full SAFe extends the framework to Large Solutions that require coordinating many ARTs and implementing Lean Portfolio Management.

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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.® The tools are complicated and require more effort than most people are willing to invest. The tools are complicated and require more effort than most people are willing to invest.