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Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding

Planview

This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading part one first, “ What is Lean Portfolio Management ,” which you can find here . In this post, we’ll discuss a fundamental component of Lean portfolio management: funding. This is where Lean budgeting comes in.

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How to Stay Lean While you Scale Your Product Team From Product/Market Fit to Growth

Planio

For every growing company, there comes a time when you need to add new blood to your product team. Unfortunately, scaling a product team from product/market fit to the demands of hyper-growth isn’t easy. But hire too slowly and you might overload your team with too much work and miss important opportunities for growth.

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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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Quiz: What’s Your Project Management Style?

Function Point

Some people are natural-born leaders, while others are budgeting wizards. Learn how to harness your best strengths and work through your weaknesses, and use project management software to help. Here’s why it matters: Team coordination: Your project management style sets the tone for how your team will collaborate.

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How to write a lean PRD (product requirements document) for your next project in 5 steps (with free template)

Planio

A product requirements document (PRD) is one of the most important documents for teams using traditional project management. However, an increasing number of Agile teams are starting to see the value of adding more planning to their process. Agile is all about staying lean and adapting to user feedback, right? Jump to a section.

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7 Steps to Deal With Scope Creep (What is Scope Creep and How Can You Avoid It?)

Planio

But if these moments aren’t handled properly, scope creep can come in and balloon budgets, kill collaboration, and send even the best-laid plans crashing into the rocks. So how can you squash harmful scope creep and keep your project team agile, productive, and motivated as you handle changes? Protect your team against “Gold plating”.

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Lean Thinking and the Parable of the Underbrush

Leading Agile

We called in a tree specialist and he told us the bad news: The tree was dying and we should have it removed. Lean Thinking starts with identifying customer-defined value, and proceeds from there by focusing on ways to maximize the delivery of that value. Projects will have sufficient time and budget to make course corrections early.

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