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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. It developed the just-in-time delivery model, which freed up working capital. Lean is a set of principles.

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Cost of Quality (COQ): A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

How COQ does this, especially in project management, is what we’ll define. But we’ll also discuss the cost of good quality vs. the cost of poor quality and show you how to measure COQ. Whether you’re manufacturing products or delivering a service, project management software can help you with the cost of quality.

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Develop Better High Performing Teams

ProjectManager.com

As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. All these efforts require precise judgment to hire just-in-time talent, using data to make strategic project decisions at a portfolio, program and project level and launching new high performing teams.

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

ProjectManager.com

Find a term you want defined that isn’t on this project management glossary? B – Project Management Terms Backlog Backlog is a term from the Agile methodology Scrum, but is also used across industries to track every single thing that is needed to complete a product in development. It is also called a Business Case.

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What is project scope? (Plus 7 steps to help you define project scope)

Resource Guru

It’s what we lean on throughout the project life cycle. As project managers, defining and planning projects is what we do. Simply put, a project scope defines all the work and considerations required to deliver a specific outcome. Project scope is the project manager’s best friend. But sometimes, complacency can creep in.

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Kanban Principles & Best Practices Explained

ProjectManager.com

Kanban is a visual workflow tool that, while originally used as a Toyota scheduling system, is now associated with in an agile methodology, especially in DevOps software development. As its popularity has grown, kanban boards have found a use in industries looking for a way to have everyone on the team view the state of their work.

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The Critical Agile Organization Change Guidelines

Scrum.org

It is not a sign that a team or a particular department lacks courage or abilities. Also, it is not necessarily a sign that a particular framework or method is bad. They decided on a change and handed it to a change team. The slightly better way was developing a plan, selling it to the employees. We respect their choice.