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Runn Software Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s resource planning software that is perfect for professional services and firms that would benefit from the transparency of seeing where time is being spent. And if you can’t simply lean over the desk to ask Fred if he’s free next week to do something new, it’s hard. We need to know when the right people are available.

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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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What Is Lean Manufacturing?

ProjectManager.com

Lean manufacturing addresses one of the worst things that can happen to any enterprise: waste. This insistence on eliminating waste is where the idea of lean as a management system developed. Called lean manufacturing or lean production, the truth is that the lessons learned from this methodology can be universally applied.

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

ProjectManager.com

Agile A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects in an iterative way with short bursts of work called “sprints” Though initially designed as a process for IT and engineering projects, it has since been successfully applied to other industries like marketing.

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Become a Skilled SAFe® SPC | Safe Program Consultant

Agilemania

2011 marked a new beginning in the era of large-scale software project management. SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for attaining business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps to manage large scale software development. . But what is SAFe? .

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These past few years have seen an incredible evolution in the way software is built. In these next years, we’re going to see a new wave of what software can do with the growing capabilities of machine learning, artificial intelligence and data pipelines across enterprises. XP, scrum, lean, etc.)

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Agile: A Grecian Odyssey through Modern Software Development

Scrum.org

Fast forward to our modern era, as we traverse the intricate landscape of software development, particularly through the lens of the agile approach, we find these age-old Greek sins echoing in the challenges and pitfalls agile teams often encounter. These issues are the kind that lean-agile practitioners are passionate about.