Scrum.org
JANUARY 31, 2023
I remember the first time I heard about Lean Startup. I was an analyst for Forrester research on a panel at the Agile conference in Orlando. A member of the audience asked, “What do you think about Lean Startup?”. Honestly, I had not heard of Lean Startup.
ProjectManager.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
This is commonly called lean project management. What Is Lean Project Management? Lean project management focuses on delivering a manufacturing project with more value and less waste. To work, lean project management relies on continuous improvement. The 5 Lean Principles.
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ProjectManager.com
DECEMBER 13, 2022
There are many ways to do this and one of which is lean portfolio management. Let’s first define lean portfolio management and then delve into how it works. What Is Lean Portfolio Management? The senior leadership team will apply lean principles to manage the portfolio.
Leading Answers
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
Now that my Beyond Agile book has been published, I would like to thank people who helped shape its content and ideas. David Anderson has done much to popularize and explain lean and the Theory of Constraints thinking. Agile teams often use kanban boards to visualize their work.
nTask
MAY 20, 2021
It is the way we manage all of the different tasks and elements related to the project development process, to make it a success. These frameworks are many, but the ones we are interested in, in this article, are Lean and Agile. What is Agile Methodology? Agile Approach.
The Strategic Project Manager
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Agile and lean are not the same thing but are closely related. This post looks at the idea of ‘lean agile’ and its application to project management and strategy. What Is Lean Agile Project Management? Apply Lean to Agile Projects.
ProjectManager.com
AUGUST 16, 2022
That’s what business process management is all about. Business process management looks at the processes a company employs to deliver its goods or services to its customers. What Is Business Process Management (BPM)? Business process management is broad and dynamic.
Scrum.org
JULY 16, 2019
Lean Agile Procurement is designed to reduce delay in establishing the partnerships, and providing clear constraints on the business relationship. The traditional approach of RFI – RFP – Review – LOI is neither lean or agile. The Lean Agile Procurement approach reduces the sourcing cycle time to days, with collaborative clarification of the product with prospective partners while reducing the risk of a poor partner and company evaluation. TL;DR.
Brad Egeland
JUNE 4, 2021
The most comprehensive Agile Management Set in the world Everything you would need in order to build your complete Agile process is in one package.
Project Management Essentials
AUGUST 6, 2022
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.
Agilemania
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
LPM also known as Lean Portfolio management, refers to how senior leadership uses lean principles and systems thinking approaches to align strategy with execution. Incorporating agile and lean portfolio management offer a path to improving business agility.
Planview
JULY 9, 2019
This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management for the enterprise. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading: Part 1: What is Lean Portfolio Management? Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding. In the first two installments of this series, we talked about the key elements of Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and how funding practices must adapt to better support LPM initiatives. Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE).
Techno-PM
OCTOBER 17, 2022
What is Lean Project Management? Lean project management is a type of project management that is based on the principles of lean manufacturing. Lean manufacturing is a type of manufacturing that is focused on eliminating waste in all aspects of the manufacturing process.
Planview
JUNE 28, 2019
This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading part one first, “ What is Lean Portfolio Management ,” which you can find here . In the first installment of this series, we discussed why modern enterprises need Lean portfolio management and the specific elements that make Lean organizations better equipped to compete in a rapidly evolving, unpredictable world. This is where Lean budgeting comes in.
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 last part elaborates on the power of lean. English Post lean QRC review
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. That is the domain of lean innovation.
Scrum.org
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
The result of this buzz session was, of course, the Agile ‘Software Development’ Manifesto. Yet as we have subsequently discovered, agility meant -- or came to mean -- something different to each of them. The Agile Manifesto is the work of unique individuals who met in a particular place, and it is an artifact which has withstood the test of time. To what extent, for example, is the Manifesto a reflex of “lean thinking”? Agile processes promote sustainable development.
Kiron Bondale
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
One of the clichés you will run across if you read enough articles or watch enough videos about agility is that we should be using the term as an adjective rather than as a noun. Misunderstandings can also happen when we treat agile as an adjective in the wrong manner.
Leading Agile
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Lean Thinking starts with identifying customer-defined value, and proceeds from there by focusing on ways to maximize the delivery of that value. Your mechanisms for delivering customer-defined value can grow strong and thrive if only you remove or minimize the underbrush in your processes. A manual, after-the-fact, formal review process is optional. The outcomes from these reviews are important, but the process is overhead; non-value-add activity.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 11, 2022
This is a guest contribution from Monica Georgieff, Agile Coach and Trainer at AgileSherpas. We’ve got the data to show you exactly how marketers are taking this period in their stride using Agile practices. Does Agile project management for marketing really work?
Leading Answers
MAY 30, 2021
I recall the Steering Committee meetings where we discussed what we believed was necessary for agile practitioners and team leaders to have experience in and an understanding of. So our scope included more than just Lean and agile; it had a little leadership and emotional intelligence.
LiquidPlanner
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Lean manufacturing has become a popular way to eliminate waste, reduce costs and improve efficiencies. The challenge with lean is that, despite its attraction to many executives who want to cut costs and increase productivity , a lean process doesn’t happen overnight. Of course, this conversation goes against the point of lean—to eliminate unnecessary waste—yet it occurs frequently. The reality is that most lean programs fail as executives lose interest.
Leading Agile
JULY 18, 2018
For small companies, Agile Transformation can be straightforward—since getting alignment can be accomplished by getting everyone in a room and creating shared understanding. However, for large, complex organizations with legacy technology architecture, Transformation must be carefully orchestrated to ensure that the work and investment made in making the change creates business value and actually leads to Agility. The Meaning of Agile Transformation.
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.
Leading Answers
MAY 28, 2021
I am excited to announce my new book “ Beyond Agile: Achieving success with situational knowledge and skills “ is launching. Since helping create DSDM in 1994, I have been working on agile projects for 27 years. The Obvious, Non-Obvious Need to Remove Process.
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. People over Process is the third book.
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.
Leading Answers
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
Many traditional project management deliverables have agile alternatives. Yet we rarely see agile communications management plans. Given the high rates of change often experienced on agile projects, we might expect more emphasis on communications to keep everyone on the same page.
Digite
JANUARY 7, 2018
Several good books have been written on Kanban and its application to various business processes, especially to Scrum, since David Anderson published his original Kanban “blue book”. If you want to improve or create the flow in your product development process start with this book! The focus of the book is to guide readers in the process of building a culture of continuous improvement by reviewing several case studies and seeing how Kanban has been applied in various situations.
Brad Egeland
MAY 30, 2022
If you are planning and tracking work in a complex domain, like software and product development, best practices dictate using an empirical process and leveraging shorter feedback cycles. Scrum is an easy-to-understand Agile framework that many teams use to manage their complex work. Join us as we show you how to manage all your Agile projects in Azure DevOps while removing the challenge of silo’d work across your organization and product teams.
Digite
AUGUST 14, 2017
Competitiveness in the age of digital disruption requires businesses to achieve agility at scale – not in select projects and portfolios alone, but across functions, across the business. The approaches to achieving enterprise-wide agility are keenly debated. I caught up with Kanban pioneer David Anderson on the sidelines of Lean Kanban Central Europe and Lean Kanban India last year and asked him about his thoughts.
Epicflow Blog
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
There is no doubt now that Agile is not just a buzzword, but a really working methodology that takes software development to the next level. . Are there any disadvantages of the Agile methodology? Overview of Traditional SDLC vs Agile Approach. Agile .
Agilemania
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
The term “ agile product management ” means precisely what it sounds like. At its foundation, agile product management is a reaction to the widespread usage of agile software development approaches such as scrum or kanban. The post What Is Agile Product Management?
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. Beyond Agile takes a “Yes, And” approach to hybrid agile. Of course, Beyond Agile does not just add traditional approach elements to agile.
Kiron Bondale
JULY 7, 2019
Let’s consider these through the lens of agility. The eighth principle of the Manifesto argues against this: “ Agile processes promote sustainable development. Agile teams are expected to be empowered by their leaders to identify their ways of working rather than having those dictated or prescribed. sprint review) and process (e.g. retrospective) feedback loops that we expect with most agile approaches.
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. About a decade ago I was an innocent bystander in a screaming match between our ‘senior’ agile coach and a senior manager.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 7, 2020
They need direction, but if you’re too hands on then you can often stifle their process. An agile workflow can help. For a long time the agile framework influenced teams outside of the software development sector from which it originated. People are evangelical about agile.
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. TPS increased productivity by denying Agile and by focusing instead on Flow. By Ko Ito.
Kiron Bondale
MAY 6, 2018
An agile project management office might sound to some like an oxymoron, right? This might be a reasonable assertion as many PMOs were first formed to provide oversight over a portfolio of projects and enforcing standards sounds like the antithesis to agility. There are many ways in which PMOs can hamper progress towards greater agility including: Enforcing standards over principles. Continuing to apply traditional funding models and prerequisites to agile investments.
International Institute for Learning
MAY 26, 2020
By Scott Ambler | Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. This post is a supplement to Scott’s upcoming keynote at IIL’s Agile & Scrum 2020 Online Conference ]. Figure 1: The Disciplined Agile Mindset.
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