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Connecting with Business Communities | Nicole Friedberg on “Lean Six Sigma” and the Importance of Lean Six Sigma Skills

International Institute for Learning

Nicole shares her insights on Lean Six Sigma and the importance of Lean Six Sigma skills for individuals and teams. You have over 15 years of engineering and project management experience in the defense, aerospace, automotive, financial, and academic industries. What is Lean Six Sigma, and why is it important?

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Agile: Past, Present, & Future. A Conversation with Agile Trainer, Rubin Jen.

International Institute for Learning

Rubin Jen has been in the project management field for over 23 years, spanning aerospace, engineering, telecom, software development, outsourcing, consulting, not-for-profit and government sectors. He has worked with companies such as Bombardier Aerospace, Celestica, Accenture and the Ontario Government. ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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6 Top Project Management Books for Engineers and Manufacturers

LiquidPlanner

Epiphanized: A Novel on Unifying Theory of Constraints, Lean, and Six Sigma by Bob Sproull and Bruce Nelson. Management consultants Bob Sproull and Bruce Nelson borrow from Goldratt’s storytelling concept to explore the advantages of using Theory of Constraints, Lean, and Six Sigma together. Oberlender.

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2022 Online and In-Person Events for Project/Resource Managers and Industry Professionals

Epicflow Blog

The first area will involve topics related to Agile, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, System Thinking, and other methods for improving the software development process. Another area of focus will cover Lean Startup, LeanUX, Design Thinking and Customer Development topics. . Pricing : from 330 EUR + 23% VAT. Pricing : starting from 250 EUR .

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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books

Epicflow Blog

The author, Peter Taylor, is an experienced business and project management consultant and coach, author of books on project management and productivity, and an international keynote speaker.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Lean & Test Driven Development (TDD) – 11%. Aerospace/. Management Consulting. Agile organizations successfully complete more of their strategic initiatives than less agile organizations. ( 69% to 45% ). [12]. Agile organizations grow revenue 37% faster and generate 30% higher profits than non-agile companies. [6].

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

Iterative and incremental are standard practices from software development of large construction (Lean Construction). In our domain of aerospace and defense, we have reference class for cost, schedule, architecture (DODAF), risk and other attributes of every system ever built in the DOD ( CAPE , CADE ) and NASA ( CARDe/Once ).