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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. These practices are now universal.

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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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Product Discovery for Scrum Teams

Scrum.org

Why the Scrum Guide Lacks Product Discovery as a Concept The Scrum Guide 2020 emphasizes the role of the Product Owner in managing the Product Backlog but does not define the product discovery process. Learn more : Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz: “Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days,” 2016.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Top Project Management Conferences to Attend in 2016

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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. Boston University’s Project Management in Practice Conference. Change Management Conference.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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Project Success: Implementation AND Adoption

The IIL Blog

Project managers tend to focus their attention on delivering the application. Organizational change management (OCM) is the domain intended to support the adoption of new ways of working. Few organizations invest in the change management capabilities required to support new technologies and business processes.