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

Project Accelerator News

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. CASE STUDY: Simon’s promotion put him in charge of a struggling team, and he told me he deployed benchmarking to identify why they’d been missing targets.

Lean 52
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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

Digite

This book describes why students, parents, business leaders, major corporations, and world governments all see immediate results with Personal Kanban. The book offers several case studies & use cases to help the reader understand how specific Kanban implementations have worked in the past. By Don Reinertsen.

Lean 79
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Review Agile Portfolio Management

Henny Portman

The book is divided into nine chapters, starting with project portfolio management, and ending with case studies on agile portfolio management. Explanation of a specific financial model or portfolio governance or stakeholder engagement are all separate sub-paragraphs. And the case studies offer not enough practical aspects.

Agile 116
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Best PMI-ACP Exam Prep Books

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Part 3 of the book covers agile and hybrid project management in complex settings, and there are a couple of case studies in appendices to further help you understand how the methods work in real life. Lots of things are at the heart of agile methods – it’s a very lean way of going about delivering results). Buy on Amazon.

PMI 195
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How To Ensure Data Privacy in Customer Relationship Management

Binfire

What’s more, adopting a lean approach to data collection can benefit you in other ways like compliance with data regulations, personalized customer experience, and reduced cost of operations. This safeguards your business credibility and potential damage to customer trust.

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Project Management Artifacts: Essential Tools to Enhance Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Process improvement strategies and lean principles like Just-In-Time (JIT) Production and 5S Methodology might be some methods that project managers would be familiar with. Tailoring: A case study on the application of the seventh principle of PMBOK 7 in a public institution. Process Groups: A Practice Guide. Domingues, L., &

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Review: Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery

Henny Portman

DAD is characterized by the following aspects: Hybrid: combines Scrum, Agile Modelling, XP, Unified Process, Kanban, Lean, Outside-In Development (OID) and other methods. Complete: DAD includes advice how development, modeling, documentation, and governance strategies fit together. The core of the book is a case study.