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New Broom, Sweeps Lean! Four ROI, Efficiency and Productivity Hacks for The New IT Project Decision Maker

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I always think of this proverb when a project leader tells me about their new, more senior role and the radical plans they have to “shake things up”. When new to a role (in many business environments, not just IT Project Management), new managers tend to lean into making sweeping changes, it’s human nature. Less broom, more polish!

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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A project management methodology is a set of principles, tools and techniques that are used to plan, execute and manage projects. The waterfall method makes use of Gantt charts for planning and scheduling; an example is below. The PMBOK provides definitions and guidelines for project planning, scheduling, executing and controlling.

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Trello vs. Asana: Side-by-Side Comparison

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It also links all four task dependencies to avoid costly delays, filters for the critical path to identify essential tasks and sets a baseline to track your planned effort against your actual effort. Neither Trello nor Asana can do that, which helps you deliver projects on time and within budget. Here are some use cases.

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Continuous Improvement: A Quick Guide

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Project management software can help you plan for continuous improvement in your projects. That’s the initials for each of the four steps in that process: plan, do, check and act. Plan To begin, brainstorm with your team and identify areas for improvement. Do This is the stage where you implement that plan.

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Lean portfolio management

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The lean portfolio management is a new way to look at the old problem of balancing cost vs. value in product development projects. The use of Lean portfolio management agile has exploded in the last decade as more and more companies have found that it is a powerful tool for structuring their product development processes.

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Incubating Innovation

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If success goes to those who can innovate the fastest, how do we nurture innovation? To innovate faster than our competitors, we need to maximize our learning potential. They need to model the desired behavior, share what they have learned and their new plan of action.

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Lean Portfolio Management Operations: An Agile Approach

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This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management for the enterprise. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading: Part 1: What is Lean Portfolio Management? Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding.

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