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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

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. It developed the just-in-time delivery model, which freed up working capital. Lean is a set of principles.

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And this article is a summary of what they replied. And in no particular order we start with: Mark Phillips Mark Phillips High performing teams are motivated by an exceptional vision. Ben Aston Ben Aston It might seem like we could let our increasingly agile , multi-disciplinary, and highly collaborative teams just get on with it.

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Ad Hoc Project Management: The Art of Chaos and Confusion

MPUG

Team members can do whatever they want, whenever they want, with no consequences. Team members are left in the dark, wondering what’s happening and who’s in charge. Besides the rework and distraction from the next batch of projects, we expect our team members to work in an unsustainable way, chronically.

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10 Career-Limiting Mistakes To Avoid

Rebel’s Guide to PM

However, you should also make it clear that this is not your project anymore and they are responsible, otherwise they’ll lean on you for a long time. Career-limiting because: No one wants to work with the project manager who emails the operational team a closure document and is never seen again. Not talking about problems.

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6 Barriers to customer centricity

Rebel’s Guide to PM

They are: Time Transparency Team Title Type of organization Technique. The process of gathering customer satisfaction scores that relate to how well the project manager and team are delivering comments on the level of project management maturity in the organization. Let’s look at each of those in turn. Transparency.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Whether you are just starting out, developing your project manager resume, or a seasoned professional, mastering the Project Management Buzzwords is non-negotiable. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e.,

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Event Series: Practical Kanban with MS Project Agile

MPUG

Two widely accepted Lean-Agile approaches, iteration- and flow-based, are embraced by Agile practitioners. The team pulls a feature or work item from the backlog based on the available capacity, executes the work, and when complete, delivers the work incrementally. In fact, there are development teams who prefer Kanban over Scrum.

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