MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2023

First, our last article touched on waste in the context of lean. Second, I am the father of a recent engineering graduate who is now working as an engineer, and part of the onboarding was a class on lean. We show some examples other than software in our Scrum Project Management book. This is where Lean principles come into play.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2023

TL; DR: Useless Agile Metrics Ideally, a metric is a leading indicator for a pattern change, allowing your Scrum team to analyze the cause in time and take countermeasures. What if these useless agile metrics lead you in the wrong direction while providing you with the illusion that you know where your team is heading?

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Leading Answers

MAY 28, 2021

I am excited to announce my new book “ Beyond Agile: Achieving success with situational knowledge and skills “ is launching. This post explains the name and motivation for the book. Since helping create DSDM in 1994, I have been working on agile projects for 27 years. Future posts will profile the content.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

It’s a lot to read, so here are some spoilers drawn from common themes I heard time and time again in the interviews: Agile : if you don’t know enough about it, you need to start learning. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects.

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Henny Portman

APRIL 26, 2022

There are not that many books on agile portfolio management, so I am curious what the book Agile Portfolio Management – A guide to the methodology and its successful implementation “knowledge that sets you apart” written by Klaus Nielsen, offers. I have no clue and what this says about the quality of the book?

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Planview

AUGUST 16, 2021

Fresh from achieving great strides in digital transformation and other endeavors in record time over the past year, executives and boards of directors want to inject even more speed and agility into their organization’s DNA. Portfolio Management Offices are in a prime position to deliver this business agility – with the right PMO roadmap.

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Digite

JANUARY 7, 2018

Irrespective of where you are in your Kanban journey, here is a comprehensive list of the top Kanban books that will help you with knowledge, insights and experience related to Kanban and ensures an empowered journey towards achieving your business goals. We highly recommend the following 10 books to all Kanban practitioners and students.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In this energizing 44th Hands-on Agile session on product backlog management, Allan Kelly clarified one thing: The backlog was a great idea until it wasn’t. Product discovery, dual-track agile, OKRs, etc., Watch the video now : Allan Kelly: Honey, I Shrunk the Backlog — Hands-on Agile 44. ? The Product Backlog.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM The quest for methodologies that offer efficiency and agility has never been rockier. Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. The book is divided into four sections. It’s a participative learning event.

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Software Review Process Lean Leadership 93

The Strategic Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Products and services, projects, and processes all need to add value to be strategically viable. Lean innovation management originated from startups, but is applicable in helping bring a startup mentality to a variety of types of organizations. Let’s start be defining lean innovation. That is the domain of lean innovation.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2018

It can mean different things within various organizations or circumstances, but there is a way to broadly outline this business process improvement methodology and define its beginnings, its, rise, its use and its implementation. As noted, it’s a methodology used to improve the quality of an output in a process. What Is Six Sigma?

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Scrum.org

JULY 24, 2023

That would be the job of the process that feeds into the Product Backlog: product discovery. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 48,000-plus subscribers. ? ? ?? Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Henny Portman

JULY 17, 2020

With the book True lean – Your guide to the fundamentals connecting purpose, process and people written by Rudy Gort you get a concise but complete and clear overview of and insight into lean. The book is divided into three parts. The last part elaborates on the power of lean. In chronological order: Y?zan

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Lean Software Review 2013 Innovation 80

Project Bliss

MAY 10, 2017

Everybody’s talking about agile software development these days: project managers, software developers, IT directors, small startups and big corporations. What is Agile Software Development? Agile software development is an approach that promotes delivering value quickly to the customer. Agile Principles.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Insights from Bosch By Johannes Köber Agility, dynamic, and flexibility are trendsetting words, with good reason. These challenges impact project management practices and project managers, spurring much-cited Agile Transformation. billion euros and is already implementing agile transformation in many units.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2022

First, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. ?. But speed is by far insufficient to be Agile at the organizational level. Figure copied from Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko).

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

2020 was again an extremely fruitful book review year. I wrote around 50 book reviews including 16 corresponding quick reference cards and several personal insights, and views on specific topics in the field of project, program and portfolio management. My own books, whitepapers and articles. Agile related books.

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Velociteach

JUNE 7, 2023

Agile seems like a mystery to many. However, when we step back and inspect agile, we see that it follows common, recognizable patterns from our daily lives. Let’s explore how agile practices can be applied to this common predicament. Agile ceremonies (meetings) are time-boxed, which creates focus and a sense of urgency.

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Leading Answers

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On Friday, September 30, I will be presenting a session on Beyond Agile at the HTEC Project Management Virtual Conference. A colleague recently described Beyond Agile as a “Yes, And, And” toolkit, and I thought it was a great way to summarize the two elements of combining hybrid agile with the Theory of Constraints, and value stream view.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

By Alan Zucker Disciplined Agile® (DA) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) are two popular, second-generation agile methodologies. They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 18, 2021

Last month I did a 20-minute overview of my new Beyond Agile book for the Washington D.C. Lean-Agile MeetUp group hosted by Sanjiv Augustine. I outline how Beyond Agile grew from studying high-performing teams and trying to distill what they did differently than most other teams.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 27, 2022

received a question: do you believe scrum and agility can be scaled and what’s the best approach to it? And I need to add flight levels to that article, but today I’m going to talk about LeSS, disciplined agile, scrum with scale, SAFe, Nexus. So if you see some process that’s meh , it’s about stripping those away.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ Exercise Empirical Process Control : In your Retrospectives, identify instances where the feature factory mindset prevailed.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability 180

Agile Coach

APRIL 19, 2018

A friend of mine asked me on twitter what my 3 main things I’ve learned teaching my Lean Change Agent workshops and what the main takeaways from attendees were. Context : it’s important to understand what triggered me to move away from agile, and into org change. First, How Lean Change Agent Came to Be. on Amazon.ca

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Henny Portman

APRIL 28, 2020

Rethinking agile – Why agile teams have nothing to do with business agility written by Klaus Leopold is great book to cope with agile transformations and what you have to do to increase the chance of success. It definitely busted the myth that having agile teams makes you agile.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell took it on himself to do something about it. He introduced the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). SAFe is based on following 10 Lean-Agile principles-. Most Common Reasons to Use Scaled Agile Framework.

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Technical Review Agile Software Review Lean 98

Scrum.org

JULY 8, 2019

TL; DR: Agile Leadership. I recently started aggregating my notes, links, and references related to agile leadership to understand better what it — in the context of an agile transition — may look like. In the end, becoming agile is not the goal of a transition; surviving as an organization is. Emergent answers.

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Leadership Agile Sustainability Software Review 183

Leading Agile

MAY 16, 2023

What if, instead of focusing on all the Agile practices, we started applying some of the things we know about systems engineering to help large companies become the kind of organization that can leverage those practices? Video Transcript Agile is a way of enabling work cells in that factory. How does workflow across the Agile world?

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Engineering Agile Software Review SCRUM 69

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 36,000-plus other subscribers. ?? ?? ???? Join 875-plus peers—less than 125 to go : The Anonymous Scrum Master and Agile Coach Salary Report 2023. There are at least six areas where enhancing Scrum helps enable business agility.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 2, 2019

Many large legacy organizations are moving toward agile delivery methods in hopes of releasing faster to market. Only then is “agile” applied at the producing code (feature) level. moving to agile will mean I can deliver more features faster.” Running agile as a feature factory is not where the real value comes from.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

TL; DR: The Illusion of Velocity In this article, I explore the pitfalls of ‘The Illusion of Velocity’ in agile contexts, peeling back the layers of traditional metrics as leadership tools. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2019

Of course, this assumes that organizations are streamlining processes, using new digital transformation approaches or methods and are assigning competent project managers to lead small, medium and large teams. Behaviors and competencies for lean and fast teams can differ in many ways. Project Performance Affects the Bottom Line.

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International Institute for Learning

AUGUST 17, 2022

Don’t Be Agile. Ohno says if you try speeding up this labor saving, cost reduction process with automation, then inventory will build up and create huge waste. He argues that to increase productivity, it is important to level the flow of the supply chain from a holistic view, rather than being agile in a particular process.

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Agile Technical Review Lean Manufacturing 69

International Institute for Learning

MAY 24, 2023

and Cynthia Snyder Dionisio, MBA, PMP Abstract “From Predictive to Agile: How to Choose the Right Project Management Methodology” highlights the shift from traditional predictive project management methodologies to agile and hybrid approaches. The authors, Harold Kerzner, Ph.D.,

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2022

Her book, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital describes the last 200 or so years in terms of 5 technology revolutions. . Many of those initial agile meetups were driven by the need to share a different way of working compared to the waterfall approach, an approach inspired by the industrial, mass-production mindset.

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MPUG

MAY 10, 2022

According to the 15 th State of Agile Report, 94% of companies are practicing Agile. This statistic is somewhat misleading as it does not mean that all of these companies are receiving benefits or even successful with their Agile approach. That said, many companies are trying to find ways to incorporate Agile methods.

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