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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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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

In the following century, it would give rise to modern-day practices like lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Gantt-charts. The New York Times Magazine , Feb 28, 2016, pp. The ties that torture: Simmelian tie analysis in organizations. The most significant criticism of scientific management? Drucker, P., Krackhardt, D.

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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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The Urge to Strangle(The Strangler Pattern)

Leading Agile

If I may borrow an idea from the Lean school of thought, I might say there’s a tendency to optimize locally. Well, provided you stand just here , and you don’t open any doors, and you don’t lean against the structure, and it isn’t too windy, and you don’t look behind the curtain. Microservices?

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

Planio

On the other hand, bootstrapping your startup forces you to think in a lean way. Instead of laser-focusing in on tasks and projects, you get hit with analysis paralysis. Most business books will tell you that to get this kind of insight, you’ll need to do a SWOT analysis or create some complex user persona.

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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.