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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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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

Learn more : Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz: “Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days,” 2016. Lean UX An extension of traditional UX design, Lean UX focuses on the actual design experience and relies heavily on a cycle of prototyping, testing, and iterating.

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How to shrink your project with the Minimum Viable Product: 5 Tips for Minimum Viable Projects

Inloox

MVP serves as a prioritization strategy by distinguishing functions that inspire the target group for the product from those that are quite nice but do not encourage potential customers to buy the product. According to the lean startup principle "Build - Measure - Learn", the product is further developed iteratively.

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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. PMI’s annual Global Congress provides insight into current project and business challenges and strategies.

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Project Success: Implementation AND Adoption

The IIL Blog

Develop mitigation strategies. In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile. There will be changes to the scope, priorities, schedule, or cost. To be prepared for these challenges, actively manage the project risks. Do not be surprised.

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Business Process Improvement: What it is and How to Implement it

nTask

According to surveys conducted, as of 2016, 66% of enterprises run a business process improvement program occasionally or never. DMADV follows these steps: Define : you need to define the process goal, while also keeping in line with the company’s overall strategy and your customer’s needs. Lean Manufacturing and Lean Thinking.

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