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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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Guide To Visual Management for a Lean System

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This post is a guide on lean visual management. In a nutshell, visual management in the context of lean manufacturing is a strategy used to foster collaboration, communication, and efficiency inside an organization through the use of visual aids and tools. Brief History on Lean Agile methodologies were a game-changer.

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Janna Bastow: Lean Roadmapping and OKRs

Scrum.org

TL; DR: HoA #42: Lean Roadmapping and OKRs w/ Janna Bastow. In this energizing 42nd Hands-on Agile session on Lean Roadmapping, Janna Bastow, the go-to-authority on product roadmaps, talked about being lean while creating and maintaining your roadmap and how objectives and key results (OKR) may help meet that challenge. ??

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Why perfect is the enemy of good - using lean change to apply agile in context

Scrum.org

Why perfect is the enemy of good - using lean change to apply agile in context. At Fractal Systems we strive to educate our clients and the project teams that we partner with about the importance of applying Agile in context. Don’t run before you can walk.

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That Agile Training Course Probably Wont Work…

Scrum.org

‘So’ – I asked, ‘How was the training course?’. Amazing’, said the newly minted ‘Super Agile Scrums Mechanical Engineer’. I learned about all this amazing agile scrum stuff!’ You learned all this cool super-agile-scrum stuff’ – I said encouragingly. Fear not, you can still go on your agile training and learn loads.

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Wie passen Scrum, Design Thinking und Lean Start-up zusammen? ????

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Die gute Nachricht: Scrum ist ein Rahmenwerk, in dem sich Methoden wie Design Thinking und Lean Startup gut integrieren lassen. . An dieser Stelle hilft uns Lean Startup. . Sowohl Design Thinking als auch Lean Startup nutzen einen iterativen und inkrementellen Ansatz, in dem Entscheidungen aufgrund von Fakten getroffen werden.

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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

Velociteach

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. Out of necessity, it needed to be very efficient to compete.

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