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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

It traces its roots to Lean, which is also foundational to other modern management theories. Lean’s primary focus is delivering value quickly and eliminating waste. Toyota was a Lean pioneer. Lean is a set of principles. The “House of Lean” is often used as a metaphor. Value Value is the roof of our House of Lean.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

When to Use It: The Waterfall approach is great for manufacturing and construction projects , which are highly structured, and when it’s too expensive to pivot or change anything after the fact. The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a not-for-profit membership association, project management certification and standards organization.

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The PMP® Certification By Jacqueline E. Dennis, PgMP, PMP

International Institute for Learning

Dennis, PgMP, PMP Abstract The Project Management Professional (PMP) ® Certification is one of many professional credentials that is awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI) ®. million PMI PMPs awarded by PMI, the world’s leading authority on management. Currently, there are approximately 1.4

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Project Manager Job Description (with free copy+paste examples!)

ProjectManager.com

That means that project managers work in virtually all fields, from software development and IT to human resources, from advertising and marketing to construction, and everything in-between. There are two major certifying bodies, PRINCE2 and the Project Management Institute (PMI). How Much Does a Project Manager Make?

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Inspiring Women in Project Management: Karen Chovan

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Today I’m interviewing Karen Chovan, MASc, PEng, PMP, who has dedicated her career to helping others deliver clean, lean and green approaches to project and programme management. You'll also like: Inspiring Women in Project Management: Lorraine Chapman Construction project management has always been traditionally male-dominated.

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5 Steps to Finding the Path to Business Agility

International Institute for Learning

We can use many patterns that have been identified and verified as good practices across many industries, including construction, government, telecommunications, travel, finance software development, and so on. When used alongside knowledgeable industry guides or Tactec coaches, these patterns result in what we call lean agile acceleration.

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Impact of Resource Constraints on Project Delivery and How to Overcome Them

LiquidPlanner

I’m seeing this at the moment on a building project: the electrician is in high demand so work is being held up on our project (and probably others) as he makes his way around various residential construction sites. Automate repetitive tasks Finally, lean into what your project management software can do for you.

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