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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker Agile is a mindset described by a set of values and principles. It developed the just-in-time delivery model, which freed up working capital. Lean is industry-agnostic and offers insight into agility. Companies innovate and develop new products. They innovate and create. The roof is Value.

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Develop Better High Performing Teams

ProjectManager.com

As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. All these efforts require precise judgment to hire just-in-time talent, using data to make strategic project decisions at a portfolio, program and project level and launching new high performing teams.

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SWOT analysis in project management: definition, instruction & example

Inloox

How to perform a SWOT analysis Once the SWOT analysis is completed: 5 key approaches for strategy development Concrete example: SWOT analysis in a software development project Conclusion 1. Understanding these strengths allows the project team to target them in order to maximize the project's chances of success.

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

In many large organizations, Scrum teams fall into the ‘feature factory’ trap, focusing more on churning out features than creating real value. It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation.

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What is servant leadership? How to empower your Agile team

Planio

People don’t leave bad jobs - they leave bad managers. So, it only makes sense that to keep your team together and happy (and avoid project failure ), you need to level up your leadership game. Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy that focuses on empowering and supporting team members. Be a team protector.

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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. And in no particular order we start with: Mark Phillips Mark Phillips High performing teams are motivated by an exceptional vision.

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Innovation: Running Experiments and Learning

Leading Answers

In my last article on  Incubating Innovation , we explored the culture and mindset of accountable experimentation. Within agile frameworks, the team retrospective is the primary workshop for planning and evaluating experiments. Yet most team retrospectives I see are broken. This is a more useful format.