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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 dramatically decreased the cost of rework by building quality into every process step. Lean is a set of principles.

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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The most successful students also include reading a range of PMI-ACP books in their exam prep, as well as a training course, just as that little bit of extra comfort. It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. Alternatively, choose books that fill in your gaps.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The name is apt, as the waterfall methodology is a process in which the phases of the project flow downward. When implementing the agile methodology , project planning and work management are adaptive, evolutionary in development, seeking early delivery and are always open to change if that leads to process improvement.

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. You can see Mark’s book, and all the other experts’ books on Amazon here. It can serve as a baseline, but most project managers ought to layer some sort of agile certification on top of it.

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Certifications, Digital Credentials, and Endorsements

Agile Coach

I started running my Lean Change Agent workshop in 2014 and have never offered a certification. I provided a Certificate of Completion because I have never believed that anyone should be ‘certified’ in anything for attending a 2-day course. Backstory: My history with certifications. What I get out of it.

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Your guide to human resource planning processes

Resource Guru

A human resource planning process can prevent these issues by helping businesses forecast and balance staffing needs and customer demands. What is a human resource planning process? What is a human resource planning process? Human resource planning is the process of analyzing your people needs and planning ahead to meet them.

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Lean Change Management – 4 Years Later

Agile Coach

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. First, How Lean Change Agent Came to Be. peaked at #6444 out of 8,000,000 books on Amazon, #198 in Leadership and Management. How this Post is Constructed.

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