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The Complete Guide to Six Sigma Methodology

Wrike

In this article, we’ll explain what the Six Sigma methodology is, how lean Six Sigma principles differ, and how Six Sigma project management can help boost your organization’s process efficiency and quality. A look at the lean Six Sigma principles. Six Sigma explained. At its core, Six Sigma is a quality improvement program.

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

Sometimes I’ll very provocatively put analysis, design, build, test, deploy, because we all know Kanban is just waterfalls, small batches. We still do analysis, we still do design, still do bills, we still do tests, still do deploy, but we want to do it in much smaller batches than typically we had prior to agile waking us all up.

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When is growth not the best choice? Why we chose to build Planio as a sustainable business instead of drowning in VC dollars

Planio

A sustainable business is more creative and innovative. On the other hand, bootstrapping your startup forces you to think in a lean way. A sustainable business is more creative and innovative. Instead of laser-focusing in on tasks and projects, you get hit with analysis paralysis. Funded Ventures: Which is right for you?

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80+ Awesome Online Resources for Project Managers

Wrike

Over 150 techniques are explained in this database, from business change and critical path analysis to variance analysis and workflow diagramming (and everything in between). Thought-provoking articles on the current state of project management, Agile, Lean, and general collaboration by a group of professional project managers.

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The Urge to Strangle(The Strangler Pattern)

Leading Agile

Business agility means having the capability to “turn on a dime” at low cost and with low risk, to drive innovation, respond to market changes, and overcome the competition. If I may borrow an idea from the Lean school of thought, I might say there’s a tendency to optimize locally. Microservices? Team: Not specified.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc. Benchmarking Effort Estimation Models Using Archetypal Analysis,” Nikolaos Mittas, Vagia Karpenisi, and Lefteris Angelis, ACM PROMIS ’14, September 17, 2014. A conversation around the analysis of the SiP effort estimation dataset,” Derek M. 61, September 2004.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Story Point Estimating,” Richard Carlson, ALEA, Agile and Lean Associates, 2013. Analysis of Empirical Software Effort Estimation Models,” Saleem Basha and Dhavachelvan P, (IJCSIS) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security , Vol. Tanilkan, Hans Gallis, Anette C. Lien, and Siw E. “The 400-407, 2009.