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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

For example, the project management process groups describe the project life cycle while the 10 project management knowledge areas explain how to manage a project. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). The car company applied it to their lean manufacturing model, known as the Toyota production system.

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Applicability of Agile/Lean/Kanban Methods for fixed scope/budget projects (with short duration)

Sudipta Lahiri

This session objective was to address challenges faced by Lean-Kanban practitioners in their projects. Problem Statement : Some projects are fixed scope, fixed budget and have relatively small duration – 3-4 months. Next, they came to the white board, brought all their points and grouped them together. Small Cycles.

Lean 20
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Top 12 Most Relevant Project Management Books You Need to Read

ActiveCollab

The book compares agile to waterfall, breaks down various Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP, FDD, Lean, etc.), One-feature-at-a-time mentality yields a Frankenstein monster and the product ends up barely usable - which ultimately makes projects go over budget. The Goal / Critical Chain by Eliyahu M.

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Top 12 Most Relevant Project Management Books You Need to Read

ActiveCollab

The book compares agile to waterfall, breaks down various agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP, FDD, Lean, Crystal, etc.), It’s about an IT project that’s massively over budget and behind deadline. It covers group chemistry, work environment, corporate entropy, workspace theory, and more. Critical Chain by Eliyahu M.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

And then tying that together into a network and then applying Lean principles to designing an organization that can get stuff done. And then you start to measure some of the lean stuff that we’re doing at the time, from some of the con bonds. – Critical chain project management? – Yeah. – Right?

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

At the turn of the millennium, software projects were mostly organized in a Waterfall way and were reported to have poor results (Standish Group reports). In 2001, a group of software thought-leaders got together and hammered out the Agile Manifesto. Critical Path, Resource Critical Path, Critical Chain, Earned Value, Earned Work, etc.)

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Budget : The sum total of all the money allocated for a project. Budget at Completion (BAC): BAC is the sum total of all budgets established for the work to be performed. Budget Cost: The cost of the project estimated at the start of the project. Note that the budget cost is not the same as the budget.