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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 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.

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Product Manager vs Project Manager – What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

For example, manufacturing product managers are responsible for tangible products, while software development product managers will have different teams and agile workflows to assist in the software product launch. For example, many project managers are accustomed to working within the PMI guidelines for best project management practices.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

Agile Methodology. What It Is: In a nutshell, Agile project management is an evolving and collaborative way to self-organize across teams. The agile methodology offers project teams a very dynamic way to work and collaborate and that’s why it is a very popular project management methodology for product and software development.

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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. It can serve as a baseline, but most project managers ought to layer some sort of agile certification on top of it. Find her on Twitter.

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Project Manager Job Description (with free copy+paste examples!)

ProjectManager.com

There are two major certifying bodies, PRINCE2 and the Project Management Institute (PMI). Here are the main project management certifications offered by the PMI: Project Management Professional (PMP): This certifies that you’re a capable project manager who is competent in waterfall and agile project management.

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9 Best Project Management Certifications in 2024

The IIL Blog

It reviews each of the key offerings, from the globally acclaimed Project Management Professional (PMP®) and PRINCE2®, to the more agile -minded certifications like ScrumMaster and Product Owner. Some practitioners find the methodology complex, and rigid compared to more flexible approaches like Agile (not including PRINCE2® Agile).

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Can scrum and agility be scaled and what’s the best way to do it?

Scrum.org

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. Disciplined Agile. It was updated a few months ago.

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