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Project Kickoff – the Perfect Start

Velociteach

What a remarkable way to start! Check out this 11-second video from a soccer game: (Click the image below or use this URL: [link] Harrison is a 5-A high school in the state of Georgia – that’s a big school with tough competition in sports. It is extremely rare to score a goal from the kick-off of […] The post Project Kickoff – the Perfect Start appeared first on PMP Certification Exam Prep & Training - Velociteach.

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Does Agile mean NO Managers?

Stepping Into Project Management

In trying to move in the right direction Agile-wise too soon, there are organizations who will consider removing managers or team leads completely from the equation. However, removing the title doesn't mean, the role or the job has been removed and these management positions are simply disguised via different names. There are scrum masters sometimes who are actually functional managers for the team.

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Pareto Analysis of Blocked Cards

Sudipta Lahiri

The role of metrics in TPS is crisply explained in Jeffery Liker’s book “The Toyota Way”. He explains that Toyota prefers simple metrics and does not use many of them at the plant or the company level. Some of my peers may be surprised to hear this! The author highlights his point with a simple example. During one of his visits to one of the Toyota plants, he was told that apart from a few basic metrics (like cost of plant operations, parts per million defects, some safety related and productivi