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What is Lean Portfolio Management? Primary Focus | Objectives

Agilemania

LPM also known as Lean Portfolio management, refers to how senior leadership uses lean principles and systems thinking approaches to align strategy with execution. Incorporating agile and lean portfolio management offer a path to improving business agility. What Are The Objectives Of Lean Portfolio Management?

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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences.

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Scaling Agile Practices – Improve Business Outcomes

Agilemania

Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand. Teams apply a process model that is optimized for highly variable knowledge work. In SAFe®, this is known as Develop on Cadence, a coordinated set of practices that support Agile Teams by providing a reliable series of events and activities that occur on a regular, predictable schedule.

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How Usable Working Products Are Your Ultimate Weapon Against Risks

Scrum.org

Keep It Lean and Mean It’s a battlefield out there. Your protection in this ruthless world is a lean, mean, and functional product. Trim down the documentation, automate your processes, and concentrate on delivering a product ready to face the real world. The markets are evolving faster than ever before.

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How Do you Make a Retrospective an Interesting Session?

NimbleWork

Many teams lean into retrospectives to help uncover areas where processes could be slicker, where engagement hasn’t been as effective as it could and to look for areas of improvement. Get Software Tools that Support the Retro Process Make sure everyone has access to software tools designed specifically for retros.

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The Three — Wait: Four — Elements of Empiricism

Scrum.org

Let’s start with what the Scrum Guide says about empiricism: “Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking. Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.”. The emergent process and work must be visible to those performing the work as well as those receiving the work. Empiricism. Inspection. Adaptation. “If

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SAFe Simply Explained (Part 1): Core Competencies and Principles

Inloox

High flexibility, adaptability and increased communication are just a few of the benefits that have led to significant improvements through the introduction of agile work processes in organizations. Lean Agile Leadership: Managers are the very core of lean agile development and business agility.