Digite

JANUARY 7, 2018

Irrespective of where you are in your Kanban journey, here is a comprehensive list of the top Kanban books that will help you with knowledge, insights and experience related to Kanban and ensures an empowered journey towards achieving your business goals. We highly recommend the following 10 books to all Kanban practitioners and students.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 31, 2023

But is it possible to structure a process of continuous improvement at your company so that it aligns with your preferred management tools, team morale and overall objectives? In other words, can that process of continuous improvement prove productive and worthwhile? Some see continuous improvement as a meta-process, such as W.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. What Is Kanban?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Boost your skills: Make sure everyone on the team knows how to manage risks and what the process is. Skill #3: Managing scope Understanding the change management process and being able to navigate your way through the changes as they hit the project – that’s a great skill to have. Book a power hour with me. Need a mentor?

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The Strategic Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Products and services, projects, and processes all need to add value to be strategically viable. Lean innovation management originated from startups, but is applicable in helping bring a startup mentality to a variety of types of organizations. Let’s start be defining lean innovation. That is the domain of lean innovation.

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Henny Portman

JULY 17, 2020

With the book True lean – Your guide to the fundamentals connecting purpose, process and people written by Rudy Gort you get a concise but complete and clear overview of and insight into lean. The book is divided into three parts. The last part elaborates on the power of lean. In chronological order: Y?zan

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Now that my Beyond Agile book has been published, I would like to thank people who helped shape its content and ideas. David Anderson has done much to popularize and explain lean and the Theory of Constraints thinking. These kanban boards typically show queues and work in progress (WIP).

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The book is divided into four sections. It puts the focus on the software and the related business processes in a powerful way by using different scenarios. Project Planning meeting.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

2020 was again an extremely fruitful book review year. I wrote around 50 book reviews including 16 corresponding quick reference cards and several personal insights, and views on specific topics in the field of project, program and portfolio management. My own books, whitepapers and articles. Agile related books.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

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. He is author of 13 best-selling books, including four about project management. XP, scrum, lean, etc.)

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2018

It can mean different things within various organizations or circumstances, but there is a way to broadly outline this business process improvement methodology and define its beginnings, its, rise, its use and its implementation. As noted, it’s a methodology used to improve the quality of an output in a process. What Is Six Sigma?

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Leading Answers

MAY 28, 2021

I am excited to announce my new book “ Beyond Agile: Achieving success with situational knowledge and skills “ is launching. This post explains the name and motivation for the book. The Beyond Agile Model was developed, and this book documents the components.   The Obvious, Non-Obvious Need to Remove Process.

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Scrum.org

JULY 24, 2023

That would be the job of the process that feeds into the Product Backlog: product discovery. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! In this process, cross-functional teams move from problem identification to prototyping and testing solutions with real users.

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Resource Guru

MAY 27, 2022

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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Agile Coach

APRIL 19, 2018

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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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 24, 2017

To compile this list, we dug through Amazon listings, forums, blogs, and review websites to identify the best project management books specifically for those in the manufacturing and engineering industries. Who said business books have to be a bore? Goldratt turned the traditional how-to book on its head with this “business novel.”

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

There is always at least one constraint, and the theory of constraints uses what is called a focusing process to identify that constraint, and then restructures to address it. That applies to processes, organizations, individual team members, whatever or whoever is a risk to the successful completion of the project.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

So much of what you might have read about online or in project management books, or even be taught on training courses, is simply not aligned the skills we need to use every day. So what processes and techniques will catapult your career and what are the areas that you can… overlook? The way we do project management has evolved.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 25, 2023

The book Quality Control Handbook, published in 1951 and written by quality expert Joseph Juran, defined cost of quality as having both tangible and intangible costs. It’s also part of Lean Six Sigma, a philosophy of improvement built on the prevention of defects over defect detection.

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Planview

AUGUST 16, 2021

Peter, who wrote the book The Lazy Project Manager , drew upon his 30 years of experience building and leading PMOs to provide some guideposts. Their organizations made incredible progress during the pandemic, but old processes and systems are deeply embedded, making change difficult. (10:28): Can you go over Lean versus Agile?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ Excessive Planning and Control : The illusion of control among managers results in a tendency to over-plan and control every aspect of the development process. Apply Lean Thinking : Map the team’s value stream to identify non-value-adding activities.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

Understanding these top five Agile methodologies that are not Scrum Framework: Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Software Development, Feature-Driven Development (FDD), and Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) is crucial for any team or individual looking to implement Agile practices effectively.

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Henny Portman

APRIL 26, 2022

There are not that many books on agile portfolio management, so I am curious what the book Agile Portfolio Management – A guide to the methodology and its successful implementation “knowledge that sets you apart” written by Klaus Nielsen, offers. I have no clue and what this says about the quality of the book?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In this presentation, Allan "Nuke the backlog" Kelly suggests you rethink the very idea of the backlog and rebuild your agile process around outcomes. Do you refer to OKRs in general or to OKRs as you define them in your OKR book? Hands-on Agile 42: Lean Roadmapping and OKRs with Janna Bastow. So what are we to do?

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 3, 2022

Once that leaning out has been done, the second is to monitor the project manager’s administrative effort and provide them with support once it exceeds a reasonable threshold. (If If you liked this article, why not read my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership? (If

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2019

Of course, this assumes that organizations are streamlining processes, using new digital transformation approaches or methods and are assigning competent project managers to lead small, medium and large teams. Behaviors and competencies for lean and fast teams can differ in many ways. Project Performance Affects the Bottom Line.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

But it’s not just applying to personnel, processes are also included. The idea was codified by Masaaki Imai, an organizational theorist and management consultant, over 30 years ago with the publication of this book, Kaizen: the Key to Japan’s Competitive Success. Everyone is part of the process. It keeps companies flexible.

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Manufacturing Lean Healthcare Software Review 303

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

I could write my book without his case study. 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. You will not revise and standardize your processes. They aren’t always up-to-date with the latest processes and practices.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Use concepts like the Cynefin framework or the Stacey matrix to better understand appropriate decision processes and areas where Scrum might prove helpful. Other helpful practices are stakeholder retrospectives or the equivalent of lean manufacturing’s Gemba walks. Health checks : Have regular health checks as a Scrum team.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 3, 2019

Another use for it is for process mapping. If you are going to change a process as part of your project you can use RACI to step through the process and record who is going to be affected by any process change. The book makes the point that you can produce multiple responsibility assignment matrices at different levels.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Program Management and Systems Engineering are two critical processes for the success of any product or project development endeavor. This book is a must-read for anyone working on non-trivial projects. The book contains a section on the study of agile development and systems engineering with a case study from Nationwide Insurance.

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Project Bliss

MAY 10, 2017

This group of guys recognized a need for a more adaptive alternative to the regimented, documentation-driven software development process. They identified the following 4 values promoted in Agile software development: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Agile processes promote sustainable development.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We’ll explain the process, define the term and detail the steps for making a rough order of magnitude estimate. According to the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK), ROM estimates are -25 percent to +75 percent accurate, though others say its range is +/-50 percent.

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Wrike

AUGUST 6, 2014

Enter Lean project management. As a more recent PM methodology, the term “lean startup” is credited as first appearing on Eric Ries’ blog in 2008. The #1 priority of running Lean PM is to eliminate wasted resources , known as mura. So how can you decide what resources you’re wasting in order to run lean?

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Leading Answers

JUNE 18, 2021

Last month I did a 20-minute overview of my new Beyond Agile book for the Washington D.C. Lean-Agile MeetUp group hosted by Sanjiv Augustine. In the video, I cover Agile Myopia, Buffet Syndrome and the need to drop agile processes when they no longer bring enough value to warrant their use.

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International Institute for Learning

JULY 13, 2023

While past efforts primarily focused on structural and technical aspects, recent developments have embraced the integration of previously unrelated knowledge domains to enhance both the process and outcomes. As AI agents take over certain processes, forms, and checklists, the role of EQ in project management becomes even more critical.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2022

Her book, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital describes the last 200 or so years in terms of 5 technology revolutions. . For example, a call center will be empowered to work on improving their engagement with the customer and have some level of development (process and technology change) integrated into their organization.

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